Subject: Re: Xsun Dumps core .. (NetBSD Problem #8548)
To: None <mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/06/2000 02:26:41
Apologies for not fully reading the PR before replying...
Hmm - just on the chance its an optimisation bug, have you tried
compiling without -O2?
The bt problems _might_ be due to stack corruption.
David/absolute
On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu wrote:
>
>
> I did. Results are appended to the PR. I never did succeed in locating
> or fixing the bug though.
>
> -Dan
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
>
> > Have you tried compiling an Xsun with -g to see if you can
> > determine where it is dumping core?
> >
> >
> > David/absolute
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Graham Jenkins wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone got anywhere with this yet?
> > >
> > > It has been happening for me with 1.4.1, 1.4 and 1.3.3 on various
> > > IPC and IPX machines. Doing 'xset fp+ tcp/vus415.telecom.com.au:7100'
> > > seems a fairly reliable way of making it happen - especially where
> > > the designated font server is not responding properly ..
> > >
> > > And its a right pain in the neck when you are trying to get some
> > > work done!
> > >
> > > G.
> > >
> >
>