On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 10:57:39PM -0700, Alex Romosan wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Can someone check into this for me? > > > > 1) Does installing xfonts-pex make this problem go away? > > > > no, it doesn't. the crash has nothing to do with not finding the > fonts. i ran the server under the debugger, and it crashed when it was > trying to free some memory, presumably because of a bad pointer. > anyway, as i said in a different message on this list, i got the xsun > server to run by installing a new version of glibc which i compiled > myself. i think the problem is in glibc actually. maybe the old egcs > compiler used to compile the version currently in the sparc > distribution produced some bad code. i wonder if recompiling it with > gcc 2.95.1 will make the problem go away.
Sorry, I don't track debian-sparc so I was unaware of that message. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | "Bother," said Pooh, as he was [EMAIL PROTECTED] | assimilated by the Borg. cartoon.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ |
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