How to get a backtrace of Xorg (was: (Solved) Request for help to identify some bugs (part one))

2005-10-31 Thread Bernhard Reiter
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:03:03PM +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote: How can one have a backtrace of the X server. http://wiki.x.org/wiki/DebuggingTheXserver I did a 'strace -ofile startx'. Is it the right way? Probably not, as a) startx is a script which itself starts the X-Server

Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)

2005-10-25 Thread Yannick Roehlly
(I've tryed to send this message with the three trace files, one via Gmane and one directly, but none of these tries reached the list. Thus, I'm sending this message without the strace files, if someone need them to understand the problem, just ask.) Good (west-european)evening, I'm

Re: Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)

2005-10-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 19:53 +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote: When I run some X11 programs, Xorg crashes and returns to the desktop manager. As all the gdk-imlib related programs (e.g. gfontview, eboard, gnucash...) have this problem, I initialy thought it was a bug in gdk-imlib but

(Solved) Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)

2005-10-25 Thread Yannick Roehlly
I think that the list was refusing my message to tell me 'investigate more'... ;-) In fact, the problem was in the composite extension (left by an old test). This extension removed, no more problem! Thanks to Michel who made investigate this problem with another point of vue (using ssh from

Re: (Solved) Request for help to identify some bugs (part one)

2005-10-25 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 22:03 +0200, Yannick Roehlly wrote: I think that the list was refusing my message to tell me 'investigate more'... ;-) In fact, the problem was in the composite extension (left by an old test). This extension removed, no more problem! Thanks to Michel who made