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Bug#741870: X server crashes when running (in particular) some Tk 8.4 apps



On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:40:18 +0100, Andrew Shadura wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 10:00:54 +0100
> Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> > > The trouble is that I can't reproduce the crash when I'm not
> > > attached to the VT, and when I am, the VT locks and I can't switch
> > > to a different one (SysRq keys don't work either — that may be
> > > because of strange laptop keyboard configuration, I don't exactly
> > > know).
> 
> > > Do you have any ideas on what can be done?
> 
> > No other machine to run gdb on an ssh session?
> 
> After upgrading gdb I've got this:
> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> __GI___libc_free (mem=0x12d0002) at malloc.c:2892
> 2892	malloc.c: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) bt
> #0  __GI___libc_free (mem=0x12d0002) at malloc.c:2892
> #1  0xb75f7ac1 in doOpenFont (client=0xba07eb10, c=0xba0b4c88) at ../../dix/dixfonts.c:370
> #2  0xb75fa9ed in ProcessWorkQueue () at ../../dix/dixutils.c:526
> #3  0xb775dc35 in WaitForSomething (pClientsReady=pClientsReady@entry=0xb9d9a970) at ../../os/WaitFor.c:175
> #4  0xb75f585e in Dispatch () at ../../dix/dispatch.c:362

Crap.  Looks like heap corruption.  I'll try to have a go at reproducing
it, valgrind may help.  No promises on an ETA though, so if you want to
try that...

Cheers,
Julien

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