[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

[gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

[Robert Persson]

I have just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and have been finding that it crashes 
suddenly when I do certain things, such as click on the "advanced" burn 
option tab in k3b.  Is anyone else having this problem?  Sometimes things I 
do in konqueror cause it as well.  I'm not sure exactly what, but they are 
certainly things that I have been doing everyday for quite a long time.

I upgraded from v. 6.8.2-r4 because it caused problems such as buttons in some 
windows applications appearing solid black in wine.  It fixed these.

I had the same problem with the "advanced" tab in k3b when my system was in 
transition between being built with gcc-3.3.5 and with gcc-3.4.4.  I think I 
had xorg built with 3.4.4 and k3b built with 3.3.5.  However now both are 
built with 3.4.4 (unless there is something I have missed).

Is there an even earlier version of xorg that would be stable AND render 
widgets in wine properly?

Robert
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Robert Persson

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

[Richard Fish]

On 11/7/05, Robert Persson <ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I have just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and have been finding that it crashes
> suddenly when I do certain things, such as click on the "advanced" burn
> option tab in k3b.  Is anyone else having this problem?  Sometimes things I
> do in konqueror cause it as well.  I'm not sure exactly what, but they are
> certainly things that I have been doing everyday for quite a long time.
>
> I upgraded from v. 6.8.2-r4 because it caused problems such as buttons in some
> windows applications appearing solid black in wine.  It fixed these.
>
> I had the same problem with the "advanced" tab in k3b when my system was in
> transition between being built with gcc-3.3.5 and with gcc-3.4.4.  I think I
> had xorg built with 3.4.4 and k3b built with 3.3.5.  However now both are
> built with 3.4.4 (unless there is something I have missed).
>
> Is there an even earlier version of xorg that would be stable AND render
> widgets in wine properly?

I've been using -r6 with KDE since Oct 5, without any crashing like
you describe.

>From the patch descriptions in 6.8.2-r6, it looks like it was some
gcc4 patches that broke wine.  Unfortunately though the only versions
in portage are 6.8.2-r4, -r6, 6.8.99.15-r4, and 7.0.0_rc1, and two of
those are hard masked.  So if you want something earlier, you will
have to build it yourself.

Could you post the output of emerge --info and emerge -pv xorg-x11? 
Maybe there will be a clue there.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 segfaults

[Robert Persson]

On November 7, 2005 03:50 pm Robert Persson was like:
> I have just emerged xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6 and have been finding that it crashes
> suddenly when I do certain things, such as click on the "advanced" burn
> option tab in k3b.  Is anyone else having this problem?  Sometimes things I

The problems seem to have been fixed in 6.8.99.  I've been using it for 2 days 
without an X-server crash.

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Robert Persson

"Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults."
(US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997)


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