On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Vlado Potisk wrote:

> > It might be bad hardware and not a "real" X server error.

> It might be, but it is not very probable if you consider:
>       - thorough check with memtest86 passed recently

You didn't write that in the original mail.

>       - no problem with 3.3.6 in previous years on the same hardware

A chip or a expansion card or a memory module could have gotten slightly
loose.  Or a chip that isn't correctly cooled finally started to give in.

>       - problem occurs when clicking in kmail

You said it happened rarely.  That means there could very well be other
situations that could trigger it.  kmail could (in principle) just be
stressing the video card and RAM and net and disk enough simultaneously to
whack the hardware.  Could still be consistent with the bad hardware
hypothesis.

>       - segfault occurs in _fs_load_glyphs() - see the stack traces

If it always happens there, then yes.  It does occur there in both traces
-- I overlooked it in the first, sorry.

Maybe the question then becomes: what fonts do you have on your system?

-Peter

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