Re: Crashing Xvfb

2004-02-19 Thread Paul Millar
Jeff, Thanks for the info (its good to know I'm not alone) and at least I now have a backup plan if Xvfb cannot be fixed easily. If I get stuck trying to configure vncserver, could I contact you directly? That said, it would be better if Xvfb worked without crashing. Who looks after the vfb

Crashing Xvfb

2004-02-18 Thread Paul Millar
Hi, [I hope this is the right forum for this ...] I'm using the Xvfb from XFree86 as a dummy server for regression testing WINE. A recently added conformance/regression test causes Xvfb to consistently seg-fault. I've tried rebuilding Xvfb with the CVS HEAD version (as of 2004-02-17). The

Re: Crashing Xvfb

2004-02-18 Thread Jeff Epler
Paul, for what it's worth, I've also noticed wine apps killing Xvfb. This was with redhat 9's XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-2. We ended up changing from Xvfb to vncserver, both for this reason and because an error condition can require user intervention with our wine app. I don't have any better test