Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:08:16 -0000 (GMT) | | From | Tony Gale <> | | Subject | Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes |
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On 13-Feb-2001 David Woodhouse wrote: > The crashes got less frequent when I started running X against > glibc-2.1 > (note _running_ against glibc-2.1, not just compiling against it > and running > against glibc-2.2). But they were still happening.
I'm running RH6.2 with glibc-2.1.3-22
> > In the week or so since killing xscreensaver, neither of the boxen > on which > I was seeing this have fallen over. Another box on which I killed > xscreensaver but didn't run X against glibc-2.1 is still suffering, > albeit > less frequently.
Yes, a number of the xscreensaver modules cause XFree to crash - they always have. I have previously tested them all and disabled the ones that crash Xfree.
But, under 2.4 I have had X crash whilst I've been using it - which didn't happen under 2.2.
> > Looks like two separate bugs - I see no reason to expect that > there's only > one such bug causing X to fall over :)
It's a good premise :-)
-tony
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