Bug#236998: xfree86: I see this too

[Thue Janus Kristensen <thue@diku.dk>]

Package: xfree86
Severity: normal
Followup-For: Bug #236998


I see this problem too when displaying emacs windows from a debian
woody (X version 4.1.0-16woody3) on my unstable system (4.3.0-5). I
have a nvidia gfx card, using the xfree open source driver.

I can 100% reproducibly produce a crash with the following steps:
-Start emacs from woody box, displayed on unstable box
-In scratch buffer, set a mark (CTRL-space) in top left corner.
-Go to buttom right corner and push (META-w).
-Emacs crashes with the following error:

thue@thue:~$ X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request 25

[2]+  Exit 70                 emacs

That is not the only way it crashes, it is generelly hard to keep it working for 5 minuttes. It would be nice if this was fixed :).

Thanks in advance
-Thue


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.4-rc2
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C