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

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 15:28:19 +0000, Ivan Shmakov wrote:

> 	While I’m not entirely sure that it’s the same bug (so feel free
> 	to ‘notfound’ it as necessary), I’ve just found that Wheezy’s
> 	Xorg also crashes when I try to start certain X applications.
> 	Consider, e. g.:
> 
> # : starting a fresh Xorg at :3 here 
> $ DISPLAY=:3.0 twm & wait $! ; 
> [5] 14099
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":3.0"
>       after 106 requests (106 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> [5]   Exit 1                  DISPLAY=:3.0 twm
> $ 
> 
> # : starting a fresh Xorg at :3 here 
> $ DISPLAY=:3.0 gv -- some.pdf & wait $! ; 
> [5] 14134
> XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":3.0"
>       after 123 requests (123 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
> [5]   Exit 1                  DISPLAY=:3.0 gv -- some.pdf
> $ 
> 
> 	The server ends with just the following in the first case:
> 
> 14096 Aborted                 Xorg :3 vt10 -config xorg.conf-vesa -depth 24
> 
> 	yet leaves a proper backtrace (MIMEd) in the log in the second.
> 
> 	Also to note is that the issue seems to be surprisingly easy to
> 	reproduce.
> 
Do you have a font server in your font path?

Cheers,
Julien