Jeremy Huddleston schrieb:
> I have a bunch of reports of this on version 1.4.2-apple53 as well (which 
> cherry picked changes to support the new libXfont), so it probably reduces 
> down to something in those change which were cherry picked.  That's not much 
> help, but it looks like it probably landed in late 2008 or early 2009...
> 
>     30 libSystem.B.dylib:  usleep$NOCANCEL + 0
>       36 libSystem.B.dylib:  __semwait_signal_nocancel + 10
>         36 libSystem.B.dylib:  nanosleep$NOCANCEL + 129
>           36 libSystem.B.dylib:  usleep$NOCANCEL + 57
>             66 libSystem.B.dylib:  abort + 93
>               66 libSystem.B.dylib:  free + 128
>             ==> 66 libXfont.1.dylib:  FontFileFreeEntry + 107 <==
>                   66 libXfont.1.dylib:  FontFileFreeTable + 36
>                     66 libXfont.1.dylib:  FontFileFreeDir + 21
>                       66 libXfont.1.dylib:  FontFileFreeFPE + 26
>                         66 X11.bin:  FreeFPE + 43
>                           66 X11.bin:  FreeFontPath + 101
>                             66 X11.bin:  FreeFonts + 55
>                               66 X11.bin:  dix_main + 1486
>                                 66 X11.bin:  server_thread + 50
>                                   66 libSystem.B.dylib:  _pthread_start + 331
>                                     66 libSystem.B.dylib:  thread_start + 13
> 
> 
> Application Specific Information:
> abort() called
> X.Org X Server 1.4.2-apple53 Build Date: 20100211
> 
> 
> On Oct 20, 2010, at 13:11, Nix wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to track down a strange bug in X 1.9.0.901 (and probably .902
>> as well), whereby after a suspend/resume cycle long enough to time out
>> nonlocal TCP connections, my X server crashes the first time I map an
>> XEmacs window (probably 'the first thing that uses core fonts at all')
>> with this unhelpful backtrace:
>>
>> Backtrace:
>> 0: X (xorg_backtrace+0x28) [0x49b7d8]
>> 1: X (0x400000+0x5dde9) [0x45dde9]
>> 2: /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x7f50fc27f000+0xe9b0) [0x7f50fc28d9b0]
>> 3: /lib/libc.so.6 (0x7f50fb1f3000+0x731c0) [0x7f50fb2661c0]
>> 4: /lib/libc.so.6 (cfree+0x6c) [0x7f50fb269abc]
>> 5: /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 (FontFileFreeEntry+0x8f) [0x7f50fbdf12ef]
>> 6: /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 (FontFileFreeTable+0x2e) [0x7f50fbdf136e]
>> 7: /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 (FontFileFreeDir+0xd) [0x7f50fbdf139d]
>> 8: /usr/lib/libXfont.so.1 (FontFileFreeFPE+0x12) [0x7f50fbdf4692]
>> 9: X (0x400000+0x2d04b) [0x42d04b]
>> 10: X (0x400000+0x2fa8b) [0x42fa8b]
>> 11: X (ProcessWorkQueue+0x21) [0x4307e1]
>> 12: X (WaitForSomething+0x82) [0x456f72]
>> 13: X (0x400000+0x2bf92) [0x42bf92]
>> 14: X (0x400000+0x209ee) [0x4209ee]
>> 15: /lib/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xfd) [0x7f50fb211d6d]
>> 16: X (0x400000+0x205a9) [0x4205a9]
>> Segmentation fault at address 0xffffffff0241b148
>>
>> gdb is not much more helpful (I mean, yes, obviously we have a
>> double-free(), but why? something to do with the font server I've got at
>> the end of the font path specifically to trip bitrot like this, I
>> suppose), so I'm planning to valgrind it... but I'm a bit chary of that
>> because the last time I valground the X server, horrible disasters
>> resulted which ended in a system lockup and massive filesystem
>> corruption. Of course, that was before the era of KMS: perhaps things
>> are better now that X hardly touches the hardware.
>>
>> So... has anyone ever valground the X server? Does it work? (Of course
>> it will be slow. I'm expecting *that*.)

can you see what is freed ? perhaps you can grep the code to see
if that is used somewhere else, then setting the variable there to NULL.

If this is not happening with X 1.9.0. <901 the most easy way is to use 
git-biset.

hope that helps,

re,
 wh


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