Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:53 +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote:
>
> When I run some X11 programs, Xorg crashes and returns to the desktop
> manager. As all the gdk-imlib related programs (e.g. gfontview, eboard,
> gnucash...) have this problem, I initialy thought it was a bug in gdk-imlib
> but unfortunately other programs lead to the same X crashes, e.g. fontforge
> or kdiff3.
>
> Does anybody have the same problems?
>
> If someone can help me to figure out what's wrong, here are attached the
> strace outputs of 3 X-crachers : fontforge, eboard and kdiff3. (UPD: ask me
> for the files if needed)
They'd be mostly useless; an X server crash is a bug in the X server, no
matter how broken the clients are. You'd have to get a backtrace from
the X server, but based on your description, the crash most likely
occurs in one of the X server's font renderers, e.g. (wild guess without
seeing your X server log file) freetype. Try loading a different font
renderer for the type of font you're using or using a different font. In
particular, try using applications that use Xft instead of the legacy
X11 font system because the former is completely on the client side, so
a bug there usually only results in a crash of the client, not the
server.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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