I posted a bug report on January, 16th, the problem was that the X server 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 aborts with sig11 about once in a week.
Original message was: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00391.html I compiled the X server with debug symbols and waited for a crash. Inspection of the core file shows that the problem is caused by a NULL pointer dereference. Look at the file Free86-4.2.1/xc/lib/font/fc/fserve.c: function _fs_load_glyphs() calls fs_send_open_font(): 2186 2187 /* Now try to reopen the font. */ 2188 return fs_send_open_font(client, (FontPathElementPtr)0, 2189 (Mask)FontReopen, (char *)0, 0, 2190 (fsBitmapFormat)0, (fsBitmapFormatMask)0, 2191 (XID)0, &pfont); 2192 } 2193 and function fs_send_open_font() is here: 1490 static int 1491 fs_send_open_font(pointer client, FontPathElementPtr fpe, Mask flags, 1492 char *name, int namelen, 1493 fsBitmapFormat format, fsBitmapFormatMask fmask, 1494 XID id, FontPtr *ppfont) 1495 { 1496 FSFpePtr conn = (FSFpePtr) fpe->private; 1497 FontPtr font; 1498 FSBlockDataPtr blockrec = NULL; 1499 FSBlockedFontPtr bfont; 1500 FSFontDataPtr fsd; 1501 FSFontPtr fsfont; 1502 fsOpenBitmapFontReq openreq; 1503 fsQueryXInfoReq inforeq; 1504 fsQueryXExtents16Req extreq; 1505 int err; 1506 unsigned char buf[1024]; 1507 1508 if (conn->blockState & FS_GIVE_UP) 1509 return BadFontName; Please note that the second argument 'fpe' of the type 'FontPathElementPtr' is passed as a null ptr in the line 2188 and is dereferenced in the line 1496 in the expression 'fpe->private' obviously causing segmentation violation. I hope this helps the XFree86 developers to make a patch. I'd like to thank Peter Finderup Lund for his help. Vlado _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
