Re: [gentoo-amd64] FVWM taskbar segfault on ~amd64

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:48:29 -0800
felix@crowfix.com wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:57:42PM +0100, Jes?s Guerrero wrote:
> 
> > Gentoo doesn't add too much stuff. Just a couple of patches. But it
> > would help if you can reproduce your problem with a vanilla build of
> > fvwm. Without patches. So we can confirm that it's an fvwm problem.
> 
> > With my fvwm cvs ebuild you can do this, to get a vanilla build:
> > 
> > USE="-extras -translucency" emerge =fvwm-9999

First, lets see if the new vanilla build gives you the same problem. In
that case you can compile with USE="debug" to get a debug build of fvwm.

> 
> OK, it's compiling right now.  All I have for an error is the segfault
> line in syslog.  Should I run fvwm with any particular args to get a
> core dump or anything useful?  I am also willing to try special
> builds, but you'd have to hold my hand for whatever gentoo tricks that
> would require.  Or running it under gdb, I could probably do that, but
> I am not sure how one would go about that since it is a window manager.

Look here, particularly sections df1 and df3.
http://www.starshine.org/xteddy/thomas/fvwm/fvwmchanfaq.html#df1

If we can reproduce the same error with the vanilla build, then the
backtrace would belong to the fvwm-workers@fvwm.org mailing list, where
the fvwm can give you a better advice and the bug would probably be hunted
and tracked much more faster than I could do.

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Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@terra.es>
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