Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:20:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > > Breakpoint 9, 0x402bd9b6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > (gdb) bt > > #0 0x402bd9b6 in exit () from /lib/libc.so.6 > > #1 0x40200beb in _XDefaultError (dpy=0x1, event=0x1) at XlibInt.c:2846 > > #2 0x40200ce4 in _XError (dpy=0x8054328, rep=0xbffff390) at XlibInt.c:2898 > > #3 0x401ff243 in _XReply (dpy=0x8054328, rep=0xbffff390, extra=0, discard=1) > > at XlibInt.c:1787 > > #4 0x401fa4d4 in XSync (dpy=0x8054328, discard=0) at Sync.c:45 > > #5 0x401fa595 in _XSyncFunction (dpy=0x1) at Synchro.c:34 > > #6 0x401de485 in XChangeProperty (dpy=0x8054328, w=1, property=1, type=1, > > format=1, mode=1, data=0xbffff450 "\b\002", nelements=18) at ChProp.c:104 > > Thanks for the backtrace! I have a question and a request: > > 1) Were you running the X client with the -sync option?
Yes I was. > 2) When you get the opportunity, can you provide a backtrace with the > local variables included? "bt full" will do this. I don't see any > obvious null pointers in the argument list to XChangeProperty(), so > perhaps the problem is inside the function body. Ok, will do so next time. FWIW, after getting that backtrace, I let the system stay up with X screwed for 6 hours, before rebooting to fix it. So it doesn't always magically fix itself in 15 minutes. :-( I also found one X program that I could start despite the fuckage: unclutter -root -grab. -- see shy jo
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