On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, John Lumby wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, John Lumby wrote:
Thanks Marc - but it prompted me for pwd.
And this id can happily ssh to another system of mine without pwd prompt.
date;scp -qp /mnt/super9root/root/core.2856.X11crash.20071003122131
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:.;date;scp -qp
/mnt/super9root/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86.statload
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:.;date;
Sun Oct 14 22:10:48 EDT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Sun Oct 14 22:10:57 EDT 2007
[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password:
Sun Oct 14 22:11:00 EDT 2007
/home/lumby:0 ssh -l lumby date
Sun Oct 14 22:19:51 EDT 2007
The problem turned out to be that jlumby wasn't listed in AllowUsers.
Please try again.
It worked this time; They should be there now (I hope)
Thanks. These were (and still are) _most_ informative.
I've uncovered a real bug here, one that affects not only GLX Friends, but
potentially other extensions also. The bug only occurs on server shutdown
or reset. It is a definite candidate for causing this problem, but I can't
be sure at this point, given the memory corruption this core file attests
to. Fixing it will take some time (on my part). The bug has existed for
quite some time, and from what I can tell, still exists not only in our
repository, but X.Org's as well. Given that, I request that you update to
the LG sources, which you can get by following the instructions at
http://xfree86.org/cvs. I hope to have a patch against that source ready
for you to try in the next few days.
Attached is a preliminary fix. As it turns out, this should also apply to
4.6.0, perhaps even 4.5.0.
I say preliminary because this only deals with GLX/Mesa. I consider this
instance of the problem to only be the tip of the iceberg of a more general
design glitch. To fix that glitch, I'd have to change the order some things
are done during server termination or reset. Doing so is likely to break
several things which will take some time to go through.
This fix does the following:
- Fix initialisation of __GLXscreenInfo structures (not directly related to
the problem at hand);
- Fix Mesa to complain (on stderr), rather than segfault, when an attempt is
made to free an unknown buffer;
- Do not free all Mesa buffers upon GLX extension closedown. Instead these
will be freed later, at FreeAllResources() time, when the drawable privates
that reference these buffers are also freed.
Please let me know if this fixes the segfault. Please `scp` to your id on my
machine a capture of the server's stderr, the resulting
/var/log/XFree86.0.log, and, should the server still segfault, another copy
of the server binary and core file.
Thanks.
Marc.
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