On Tue, 2004-06-08 at 08:30 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Starting some applications crashes the Xserver so that I'm back at the gdm > prompt. One of the applications crashing the Xserver is xmms. > I already filed a bug against the xmms package (bug 247450) but there was no > reaction. > > Because this happens with quite some packages I'm not sure if I should file a > bug against each one or if this is a more general problem.
An X server crash is an X server bug. As this one apparently gets triggered by certain locale settings, it's probably font related. The usual workarounds for that are (not) using the freetype X server module and (not) using a font server. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
