On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 10:14:55AM -0700, Robert L. Knighten wrote: > Dominik Vogt writes: > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:45:34PM -0700, Robert L. Knighten wrote: > > > I am encountering the following peculiar problem. I use the > "MiniButtons" and > > > use one of them to start Matlab using > > > > > > *MiniButtons - matlab32c_icon.xpm Exec exec matlab > > > > > > When I do this I have the unfortunate effect that using control-c at the > > > Matlab command line, which should stop the currently executing Matlab > command, > > > kills the X server and all programs running under X. > > > > > > If instead I use > > > > > > *MiniButtons - matlab32c_icon.xpm Exec exec xterm -e matlab > > > > > > everything works fine, except of course I have an extra xterm hanging > around. > > > > > > The same behavior occurs if I invoke matlab from a menu. > > > > > > Strange. What fvwm version is this? Does any of the programs > > leave a core dump on the disk? > > > > Fvwm2 version 2.4.6. No core files are created. None of the log files show > anything odd. Here are the messages from X: > > ... > > waiting for X server to shut down Terminal: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) > or KillClient on X server ":0.0" > > ... > > As you can see the only thing odd is that the X connection is repeatedly > killed. I have now found a problem with the use of control-c in Matlab when > it is started using a button in KDE, so I strongly suspect there is something > wrong in Matlab.
That looks as if matlab does something that crashes the X server. Should that be true, there may be a matlab bug involved, but it definitely is an X server bug. No matter what happens, the X server must never crash (except when it runs out of resources). Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] LifeBits Aktiengesellschaft, Albrechtstr. 9, D-72072 Tuebingen fon: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-0, fax: ++49 (0) 7071/7965-20 -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
