[Shr-Devel] Xorg crash (was: foxtrotgps crash)

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Jan Vlug <jan.public at famvlug.nl> writes:
>  On 09/29/2010 10:46 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> > Jan Vlug <jan.public at famvlug.nl> writes:
> > >  Hello,
> > >
> > > When I use the slider at the right in foxtrotgps to zoom in, foxtrotgps
> > > crashes X.
> > > Using up-to-date SHR-U.
> >
> > That's... weird.
> >
> > I'm not aware of any issues in FoxtrotGPS that would cause it to
> > trigger an X server problem like that.
> >
> > Do you have the same problem if you the `+' button to zoom in?
> > And have you checked the X and kernel logs do see how X is dying?
> > Is it actually crashing due to a segfault or something, or is it
> > getting killed by the OOM-killer?
>
> No, I do not have the problem with the '+' button.
> X log:
> Caught signal 11 (Segmentation fault). Server aborting

If the X server is dying from a segfault, then it seems doubtful that
it'd be a problem with the app per se (a client shouldn't be able
to cause a segfault in the server...); surely it'd be helpful to know
how foxtrotgps is *triggering* a bug in the X server, but I don't really
have any specific ideas to offer--sorry :\

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