Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-15 Thread Harold L Hunt II
yvind, There are two problems with your current method of testing: 1) You are running under gdb, which will slow things down and affect the likelyhood of a race condition causing a crash. 2) The code in hw/xwin from the xorg CVS is slightly different than the code in XFree86-xserv-4.3.0-41.

Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-15 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Hi Harold, I'll be sure to follow up on your latest testing tips. Q: is there any reason not to include symbol information in your testing builds? Read on However, here are the latest and greatest: - I'm pretty sure that the crash isn't there when I compiled and installed the sources as

Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-15 Thread Harold L Hunt II
yvind, yvind Harboe wrote: Hi Harold, I'll be sure to follow up on your latest testing tips. Okay. Q: is there any reason not to include symbol information in your testing builds? I have seen people asking this since -39 was posted (I believe). There must be some confusion, because -39 and

Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-15 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:02:24PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: With that being said, I'll address the issue of symbol information: 1) If I include symbol information and there are no crashes, then people will complain (don't argue with me, they *will* complain) about the size of the download

Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-15 Thread Earle F. Philhower III
Howdy Harold, Christopher: At 06:06 PM 1/15/2004 -0500, you wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 06:02:24PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote: With that being said, I'll address the issue of symbol information: 1) If I include symbol information and there are no crashes, then people will complain (don't

Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-14 Thread Øyvind Harboe
After running with debug version of XWin compiled from the CVS per instructions in http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00160.html, I have so far been unable to reproduce the XWin crash. I did notice that the icon in the task bar is different, I saw a focus w/OpenOffice +

Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-14 Thread Kensuke Matsuzaki
Hi, If you are using -rootless, please use -pseudorootless instead of -rootless. -rootless means new rootless that uses miext/rootless. -- Kensuke Matsuzaki mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://peppermint.jp

Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-14 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Hi, If you are using -rootless, please use -pseudorootless instead of -rootless. -rootless means new rootless that uses miext/rootless. I'm not using -rootless, but -multiwindow. From my startxwin.bat: start XWin -multiwindow -clipboard -multiplemonitors yvind

Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-13 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Some more info on this crash(I assume I'm running into the same problem): - I can use the Evolution interface after the Do you want to debug requester has popped up. I interpret this as some non-essential thread having been stopped while the rest of XWin threads continue unperturbed - It does

Re: Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-13 Thread Harold L Hunt II
yvind, yvind Harboe wrote: Some more info on this crash(I assume I'm running into the same problem): What is crashing? XWin.exe? Does your entire X11 session bomb? Or, is just Evolution crashing? If Evolution is crashing, then it is likely due to bugs in Evolution; granted, some of these

Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-13 Thread Øyvind Harboe
What is crashing? XWin.exe? Does your entire X11 session bomb? Or, is just Evolution crashing? If Evolution is crashing, then it is likely due to bugs in Evolution; granted, some of these bugs may be brought out by XWin.exe, but they would still be bugs nonetheless. Some thread in the XWin.exe

Crash in xserv 4.3.0-40

2004-01-13 Thread Øyvind Harboe
Here is my varmin huntin' strategy: - I've managed to compile and install xfree86 in debug build. I think. See cygcheck attached. See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2004-01/msg00160.html - I modified startxwin.bat to launch XWin via: gdb --args XWin -multiwindow -multiplemonitors