Re: [FreeWRL] Errors with plugin, possible cause?

[Harold <hb...@no...>]

Hi Ian, Others,

I've experienced crashing of Firefox, specifically Iceweasel 3.0.5 on a
Lenny debian distro when re-loading a freewrl image .. it seems to occur 1
out of 5 times .. maybe more often.

I know I've mention this to John and others .. and I think John said they
had some fixes coming for this .. but it still crashes in 1.22.0 Freewrl
.. same behaviour.

I also reported recently (although at the end of an email .. might have
been missed) that the crashing seems not to occur with non-motif compile
from source of Freewrl (I think it's the X11 option?).  Instead what I get
is frequently (closer to 50% of the time) the loading of a image (I guess
I should say 'world') with the Freewrl plugin produces a blank page. You
can re-load the world multiple times and 50% of the time it's a blank page
.. but at least it does not crash firefox.  Again, this is a Debian Lenny
install.

Hope this info helps.

Cheers!
Harold


> Hey all -- this is more of a dev. question, but I'm posting it to the
> list anyways just in case someone here knows the answer..
>
> Regardless of the version of freewrl, my freewrl plugin crashes out
> around 1/2 the time (more specifically, firefox crashes).  It works fine
> though when I use freewrl from the command line.  The error reported is
> "Bad Window" when it crashes out, however I can't tell what the reason
> is.  I have two giesses:
>
> 1.- firefox has already died and so the window no longer exists
> 2.- freewrl starts rendering to the window before the window (that
> firefox gave to freewrl to use) was ready to go -- ie, there's a race
> condition between the two and half of the time freewrl wins (and firefox
> shoots itself for losing)
>
> Anyone know which issue it might be?  how to debug it?  how to fix it?
>
> Ian
>
>
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