> > > > i have been noticing that the color_selection widget from gtk1.2 (but
> > > > also
> > > > gtk1.1) is crashing my X server (XF68_FBDEV 3.3.3.1, on top of amifb).
> > > >
> > > > I don't know if this is an X server bug, a bug in gtk1.2, not handling
> > > > well
> > > > planar displays, or even a egcs bug when building gtk or the X server
> > > > ...
> > >
> > > If the X server crahses its an X server bug. X11 is required to send you
> > > an
> > > error for anything stupid you tell it to do
> > >
> >
> > Signal 11 error ?
> >
> > i guess it is a generalized problem, since gnome-panel crashes also, and
> > strangely, it even crahses the server when i relaunch it a second time,
> > after
> > few seconds ... :(
> >
>
> perhaps completely unrelated, but I had a few programs recently that crash
> apparently in malloc() or similar. The programs are precompiled binaries from
> the RH 5.1 packages - pine (without X) and acm(acms to be exact). Anyone
> tried
> these with a recent kernel release? It might be more related to brk() - I had
> similar crashes when I tried to run xemacs-19.13 which resulted from the fact
> that brk returned addresses above 2GB.
>
> I hadn't time to recompile them yet..
Possible we should wait for the newer egcs, hopefully it will fix this nasty
bugs.
Regards,
Hartmut
