On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 08:59:57PM -0600, Jaimos F Skriletz wrote: >>>> My work has OpenSuse 11.1 systems (64-bit), and I notice that Fvwm >>>> (2.6.26 and 2.6.27) crashes when I do the following >>>> >>>> Pick WindowStyle MiniIcon vim.png >>>> >>>> (basically set any icon which is not the window's current icon, and >>>> locatable by Fvwm in the image path). >>>> >>>> This leads to an immediate crash, with no error messages. The last >>>> couple of lines in my .xsession-errors are: >>>> >>>> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server >>>> ":0.0" >>>> after 7141 requests (7000 known processed) with 0 events remaining. >>>> XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server >>>> ":0.0" >>>> after 102 requests (102 known processed) with 0 events remaining. >>>> >>>> The same happens when I run Fvwm under VNC, as opposed to Fvwm under X >>>> directly (so I'm guessing it's not server dependent). Once fvwm crashes >>>> because of this error, it reload it (via commandline) without restarting >>>> the VNC server causes fvwm to segfault. >>>> >>>> I should also add that on my Gentoo laptop, I don't see the above error. >>>> >>>> >>> I checked to see if I had the issue and it does not crash my system >>> at all. I'm running debian (sid) amd64 bit. I am not sure what the >>> issue could be. My fvwm version is a cvs (2.5.28) from a month ago. >>> >>> fvwm --version >>> fvwm 2.5.28 (from cvs) compiled on Jul 12 2009 at 20:59:11 >>> with support for: ReadLine, RPlay, Stroke, XPM, PNG, SVG, Shape, >>> XShm, SM, Bidi text, Xinerama, XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS >>> >>> I'd suggest first trying the current cvs version and seeing if it >>> works there. If you still are getting crashes in the current cvs >>> version then provide some more info like compile options from fvwn >>> --version to help debug where the issue is. >>> >> >> Ok, I just checked with the CVS version. (I also noticed that the error >> message I get after resetting the MiniIcon is a friendly "Segmentation >> fault"). So I can confirm the crash on 2.5.26, 27 and 28CVS. Here's my >> version info: >> >> fvwm 2.5.28 (from cvs) compiled on Aug 18 2009 at 22:33:07 with >> support for: ReadLine, Stroke, XPM, PNG, SVG, Shape, XShm, SM, Bidi >> text, Xinerama, XRender, XCursor, XFT, NLS >> >> I myself am baffled by this, since on my Gentoo box, no matter what I do >> I can't crash it. Any suggestions? >> > Is it only with .png files, try to use a xpm or a svg icon? I'd assume > you'd still crash but only thing I can think of. I would also suggest to > see if you can set the MiniIcon though a command like > > Style "appname" MiniIcon file.png
Ok. I just checked. xpm segfaults just as well as png. And Style ... segfaults just as well as WindowStyle ... I'll follow Viktor's suggestion next and send a backtrace to fvwm-workers. Any other suggestions on how to fix this are more than welcome, GI -- He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
