Re: Gtk1.2 colo_selection widget crashes X on planar amifb fbdev X server

[Hartmut Koptein <koptein@et-inf.fho-emden.de>]

> > > > i have been noticing that the color_selection widget from gtk1.2 (but also
> > > > gtk1.1) is crashing my X server (XF68_FBDEV 3.3.3.1, on top of amifb).
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know if this is an X server bug, a bug in gtk1.2, not handling well
> > > > planar displays, or even a egcs bug when building gtk or the X server ...
> > > 
> > > If the X server crahses its an X server bug. X11 is required to send you an
> > > error for anything stupid you tell it to do
> > > 
> > 
> > Signal 11 error ? 
> > 
> > i guess it is a generalized problem, since gnome-panel crashes also, and
> > strangely, it even crahses the server when i relaunch it a second time, after
> > few seconds ... :(
> > 		
> 
> perhaps completely unrelated, but I had a few programs recently that crash
> apparently in malloc() or similar. The programs are precompiled binaries from 
> the RH 5.1 packages - pine (without X) and acm(acms to be exact). Anyone tried 
> these with a recent kernel release? It might be more related to brk() - I had
> similar crashes when I tried to run xemacs-19.13 which resulted from the fact
> that brk returned addresses above 2GB.
>  
> I hadn't time to recompile them yet..

Possible we should wait for the newer egcs, hopefully it will fix this nasty bugs.

Regards,

    Hartmut