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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!quack!mrapple From: mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) Subject: Re: XFree crashes Message-ID: <f5pHTTz@quack.kfu.com> Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'. References: <1993Jun29.153950.10718@cs.utwente.nl> Date: 3 Jul 1993 08:45:32 UTC Lines: 20 sijben@rhone.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Paul Sijben) writes: >I have got this problem with both XFree1.2 and 1.3 that is that it >crashes and exits with signal 11 (segmentation error) for no apparent >reason. I have been told that some programs eat up a lot of memory which can >cause the X server to crash. But also when I start a new server (after a crash) >and do something inoffending as moving a window or an icon (or starting >xlock with option rotor,swarm or qix, the rest works OK) it crashes on me. cbzone when run on a remote machine (it doesn't run properly at all if compiled with the stock libm.a) talking to XFree86-1.3 will crash it after about 5 seconds of game play. I have seen totally Heisenbug crashes when iconifying a window very occasionally. Kudos to the team, however, for making -query [host] work. -- Nick Sayer <mrapple@quack.kfu.com> | N6QQQ @ N0ARY.#NOCAL.CA.USA.NOAM | Don't talk to me about conservation +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest' | until the Sierra Club stops PGP 2.2 public key via finger | soliciting donations with junk mail.