On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:16:20PM +0200, Uwe Pross wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:38:56PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > I'm almost sure that this problem is related to multiple menu > > styles. It never happened to me while I was using the default > > menu style only, but I could provoke a crash twice when I defined > > a new menu style for the root menu. > > It is good to hear that it is reproducible outside of my computer. > > > You can run a separate X server or an Xnest in a window. > > .... > > To run fvwm in an Xnest window (Xnest should run on any X server): > > > > $ Xnest -full -sync -name "Xnest :3" -fp `xset -q | grep fonts` :3 > > > > $ fvwm2 -d :3 ... > > Thanks for the hints. I like the Xnest program it is quite funny to > see a fvwm running inside of fvwm ;-) > Debugging is much easier that way as well. > > > However, the biggest problem at hand is to reproduce the problem > > at will. As long as it happens at a random time in a function > > that just accesses memory that was corrupted somewhere else, the > > core dumps are not very helpful. > > That's the point. Meanwhile I found three positions in file menus.c > where a segmentation fault occured. But this posititions are not the > reason for the memory corruption.
I've seen two yet. They have in common that an invalid menu style is accessed, for example via (from paint_menu()): MenuStyle *ms = MR_STYLE(mr); This expands to MenuStyle *ms = mr->ms->s; > However I have to stop here since at the moment I am quite busy with > my study, so I can't help finding this little bug. Hopefully in > september I will have more time to work on some patches. For me I > have disabled the dynamic menu since I hardly used it. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
