Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

Tony Gale (gale@syntax.dera.gov.uk)
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:08:16 -0000 (GMT)


On 13-Feb-2001 David Woodhouse wrote:
> The crashes got less frequent when I started running X against
> glibc-2.1
> (note _running_ against glibc-2.1, not just compiling against it
> and running
> against glibc-2.2). But they were still happening.

I'm running RH6.2 with glibc-2.1.3-22

>
> In the week or so since killing xscreensaver, neither of the boxen
> on which
> I was seeing this have fallen over. Another box on which I killed
> xscreensaver but didn't run X against glibc-2.1 is still suffering,
> albeit
> less frequently.

Yes, a number of the xscreensaver modules cause XFree to crash - they
always have. I have previously tested them all and disabled the ones
that crash Xfree.

But, under 2.4 I have had X crash whilst I've been using it - which
didn't happen under 2.2.

>
> Looks like two separate bugs - I see no reason to expect that
> there's only
> one such bug causing X to fall over :)

It's a good premise :-)

-tony

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