Re: [XonX-Users] Frequent XDarwin crashes

[RCohen <rc...@ll...>]

Hmm.  I wonder what is the best way to proceed.  

I can pretty easily generate an XDarwin crash with IslandDraw: seems
like if I start up IDraw and enlarge its main window, one time in two
or three it will crash.  I've also had crashes just resizeing xterms,
but that seems to be much rarer.  The thing about IDraw freezing
XDarwin happens every time I attempt to save one particular file.  Do
you have access to a Sun solaris machine with IslandDraw?  IF so I
would be happy to send you the offending file.  (It is a postscript
file, which I open successfully in IDraw and attempt to save as and
IslandDraw file.  An iteresting prelude here would be for me to try the
save running X from another platform, e.g. a Sun).

-Ron Cohen-



Torrey T. Lyons writes:
 > At 12:24 PM -0800 3/13/02, RCohen wrote:
 > >The present problem is more benign in that it is only XDarwin that
 > >quits.  I had an interesting variation on the theme after I sent out
 > >the first email: I found an application on the remote machine (a Sun;
 > >the application is IslandDraw) such that if I attempted to do a save
 > >of a particular file from within the application (saving on the Sun,
 > >not the mac), it would cause XDarwin to freeze and cause the Mac
 > >overall to be sluggish.  Go figure that one out.
 > 
 > I am very interested in seeing repeatable XDarwin crashes/freezes. As 
 > far as I am aware they are now only rare (except perhaps on dual 
 > processor machines, which I don't have access to) and non-repeatable, 
 > hence hard to debug. The IslandDraw bug does sound strange, but if it 
 > repeatably causes XDarwin 1.1 to freeze, it would be very worthwhile 
 > to track down and fix.
 > 
 > (Repeatable bugs with local clients I can test myself if you tell me 
 > where to get the software. To debug repeatable bugs with remote 
 > clients it often helps to have an account on the remote machine so 
 > that I can use it to display and test on my local machine. Either 
 > that or it is possible to set you up with an instrumented version of 
 > XDarwin.)
 > 
 > --Torrey
 > 
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