I downloaded the source and did some more debugging. I found that when the crash happens pPixmap is NULL. Or in other words (pWindow)->devPrivates[cwWindowIndex].ptr == NULL. See the debugging session below. I had to jump through some hoops because the compiler optimized away some local variables.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb7c0aa30 (LWP 5977)] 0xb78d6412 in cwGetBackingPicture (pPicture=0x85d3ac0, x_off=0xbf89d3e8, y_off=0xbf89d3e4) at ../../../miext/cw/cw_render.c:128 128 ../../../miext/cw/cw_render.c: No such file or directory. in ../../../miext/cw/cw_render.c (gdb) print pPixmap $4 = (PixmapPtr) 0x0 (gdb) print ((WindowPtr)pPicture->pDrawable)->devPrivates[cwWindowIndex] $6 = {ptr = 0x0, val = 0, uval = 0, fptr = 0} (gdb) -- Xorg server segfaults in cwGetBackingPicture https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319402 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs