It may well be that this bug is specific to fvwm, but here it is ONLY triggered by gimp.
I think I can trigger the crash reproducibly in my setup: * I'm using a DesktopSize of 8x2 with two screens ("Xinerama on" is default). * To trigger the crash, gimp (apparently) must be run on a "desktop" pretty far to the right (i.e., not on the first desktop (0,0) of the 16 desktops). * So, on this dekstop (e.g. (7,1)), I open an xterm and then: - $ gimp - File > Open (an existing tiff or png ... file) - File > Close View - File > Quit -> fvwm crashes (On desktop (0,0): no crash; without "File > Close View" action: no crash; ...) Some suspicious lines from .xsession-errors (collected from several different crashes, not every crash writes a message to .xession-errors:) are: *** Error in `x-window-manager': double free or corruption (out): 0x00000000008569a0 *** *** Error in `x-window-manager': free(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001081ed0 *** *** Error in `x-window-manager': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x000000000092f480 *** *** Error in `x-window-manager': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x00000000025b54e0 *** *** Error in `x-window-manager': munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x0000000001ffe0d0 *** *** Error in `x-window-manager': malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x0000000000dc8060 *** Following these errors are fatal errors of several open programs: XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 78 requests (76 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 133 requests (115 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 261 requests (197 known processed) with 0 events remaining. XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0.0" after 83 requests (81 known processed) with 0 events remaining. xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":0.0" ... Probably not related are some persistent fvwm charset problems: [fvwm][convert_charsets]: WARNING - Invalid byte sequence during conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 Rarely, errors are also written to syslog/kern.log when fvwm crashes: Mar 16 09:19:57 myname kernel: [146626.224888] x-window-manage[25095]: segfault at 7f7d23cf9570 ip 00007f7d21bafb95 sp 00007ffc7712d650 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7f7d21b37000+19f000] Mar 16 09:23:57 myname kernel: [146866.749516] x-window-manage[25548]: segfault at 7f8211f86b30 ip 00007f820f593b95 sp 00007ffdcbdff6e0 error 4 in libc-2.19.so[7f820f51b000+19f000] As mentioned before (but not necessarily related), fvwm does not display handles for several dialog windows, e.g., in gimp (File > Open) or xpdf. These crashes are really annoying; please let me know if I can help you to remove this bug. Olaf -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.0 APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages fvwm depends on: ii libc6 2.19-15 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3 ii libfribidi0 0.19.6-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libice6 2:1.0.9-1+b1 ii libperl4-corelibs-perl 0.003-1 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii libreadline6 6.3-8+b3 ii librplay3 3.3.2-14 ii librsvg2-2 2.40.5-1 ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b1 ii libstroke0 0.5.1-6.1 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20140913-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.14-1+b1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxft2 2.3.2-1 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b1 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.11-1+b1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii perl 5.20.2-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages fvwm recommends: ii fvwm-icons 20070101-2 ii libx11-protocol-perl 0.56-6 ii perl-tk 1:804.032-3+b3 Versions of packages fvwm suggests: ii cpp 4:4.9.2-2 pn fvwm-themes <none> pn m4 <none> ii menu 2.1.47 pn wm-icons <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org