Because this bug is extremly annoying, i looked a bit further into what is
happening.
Running the X server in gdb gives the following details on the crash:
----------snip------
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x08096feb in doListFontsWithInfo (client=0x8ad5d58, c=0x8b28dc8)
at ../../dix/dixfonts.c:920
920 ../../dix/dixfonts.c: No such file or directory.
in ../../dix/dixfonts.c
(gdb) bt
#0 0x08096feb in doListFontsWithInfo (client=0x8ad5d58, c=0x8b28dc8)
at ../../dix/dixfonts.c:920
#1 0x08094200 in ProcessWorkQueue () at ../../dix/dixutils.c:527
#2 0x080a2766 in WaitForSomething (pClientsReady=0x8a401e0)
at ../../os/WaitFor.c:169
#3 0x08080c4e in Dispatch () at ../../dix/dispatch.c:368
----------snip------
The blameworthy code in dixfonts.c looks like this:
918 while (c->current.current_fpe < c->num_fpes)
919 {
920 fpe = c->fpe_list[c->current.current_fpe];
921 err = Successful;
So lets take a look into the ominous "c":
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(gdb) print *c
$1 = {client = 0x8b292c8, num_fpes = 145920400, fpe_list = 0x0, reply = 0x0,
length = 228, current = {
pattern =
"-sony-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-120-100-100-c-80-iso8859-1\262\b", '\000'
<repeats 192 times>, "-\000\000", patlen = 58, current_fpe = 0,
max_names = 0, list_started = 1, private = 0x0}, saved = {
pattern =
"\b\b\b\b\t\t\t\t\n\n\n\n\v\v\v\v\f\f\f\f\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\016\016\016\016\017\017\017\017\017\017\017\017",
'\020' <repeats 12 times>, '\021' <repeats 44 times>, '\020' <repeats 12
times>,
"\017\017\017\017\017\017\017\017\016\016\016\016\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\r\f\f\f\f\v\v\v\v\n\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\b\b\b\b\a\a\a\a\006\006\006\006\005\005\005\005\004\004\004\004\003\003\003\003\001\001\001\001",
'\000' <repeats 83 times>, patlen = 0, current_fpe = 0, max_names = 0,
list_started = 0, private = 0x0}, savedNumFonts = 0, haveSaved = 0,
savedName = 0x0}
----------snip------
Note, that c->fpe_list is NULL, while c->num_fpes contains an unreasonable
value.
When printing this value in hex, it actually looks like a pointer instead of the
expected count. I guess, the data structure has either been corrupted
somewhere or
c points to something completely wrong.
At this point i must give up; i don't understand enough on the interna
of the x server.
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emacs23/rxvt/xawtv/vlc crash Xorg w/ proprietary NVIDIA driver
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