Sounds like an Xorg bug...you should report it to those guys with the core dump file from from the Xorg crash.
--Mike On November 24, 2009 07:02:09 am crasic1 wrote: > I posted this on the sourceforge bug tracker but that place seems a little > dead, and I have no interest currently in joining the kicad dev group > since I cant contribute so hopefully posting the bug here might get it > noticed > > > Relevant information: > > Radeon mobile x300 video card > Kernel 2.6.31 > Xorg 1.7.1.902 (confirmed with other 1.7.1.x xorgs as well) > Kicad 20090216-final (also confirmed with latest svn build) > > Description: > In PCBNEW, upon zooming in to zoom 50 or higher. Xorg crashes reporting a > segmentation fault. (PCBnew goes with it as well, obviously) > > This only happens when there is an graphical Arc on the drawing layer OR > edges layer of the pcboard. Otherwise everything works as usual. > > This only started happening on update from Xorg 1.6.9 > > I'm tempted to think its an xorg issue since it only started after an > update. But considering how many bugs are reported on xorg, I wanted to > report it here in order to get some insight on the issue and to have a > more specific issue to report to the xorg devels (like segfault on this or > that system call) rather than just "crashes on kicad zoom in". > > Potentially something changed in the xorg api from 1.6 to 1.7 so it might > be some kicad library misbehaving. But I know next to nothing about X so I > cant confirm. > > I'm running arch, and most of these packages havent trickled down to more > stable distro's so I havent confirmed if it happens on other > distro's/hardware. >
