On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 11:35:40PM -0500, Kurt Miller wrote:
> > > Works fine on amd64 and i386 here.  It doesn't work via remote X11
> > > on macppc though.
> >
> > Yea, I'm seeing it fail on mappc too (not remote X). I debugged it a
> > little and found that we are hitting this cairo bug:
> >
> > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4505
> >
> > Seems to be related to 8 bpp Depth.
> 
> Regarding the crashes: they are from a cairo bug and effect all the 
> gtk+2 apps I've tried. I've been able to reproduce it on multiple 
> platforms in multiple apps. All you need to do is have your X server in 
> Depth 8 and ssh -X to another box to run something like gftp to see it.
> For macpcc I can reproduce it locally (again Depth 8). Funny thing is
> I can't reproduce it locally on i386, but remote i386 fails too.

yes, I get the same crashes with Depth 8 and gftp and cssed when logged in
to i386 with ssh -X. doesn't happen with ssh -Y, however.

> Since this is a generic problem and not firefox specific I think firefox 
> should not be held up by it.

makes sense to me.

-- 
steven

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