Hi, I have had several fvwm crashes today with one program and could get it down to a FVWM issue:
GNU gdb 6.7.1-debian Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"... Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pktest/fvwm/bin/fvwm [fvwm][main]: <<ERROR>> Cannot read startup config file, tried: /home/pktest/.fvwm/config /home/pktest/fvwm//share/fvwm/config /home/pktest/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc /home/pktest/.fvwm2rc /home/pktest/fvwm//share/fvwm/.fvwm2rc /home/pktest/fvwm//share/fvwm/system.fvwm2rc /home/pktest/fvwm//etc/system.fvwm2rc [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb7ba58c0 (LWP 20284)] [fvwm][convert_charsets]: WARNING - Invalid byte sequence during conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 [fvwm][convert_charsets]: WARNING - Invalid byte sequence during conversion from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb7ba58c0 (LWP 20284)] 0x080aadcf in ewmh_MoveResizeWindow (fw=0x0, ev=0x80fb180, style=0x0, any=0) at ewmh_events.c:194 194 if ( (gdb) bt #0 0x080aadcf in ewmh_MoveResizeWindow (fw=0x0, ev=0x80fb180, style=0x0, any=0) at ewmh_events.c:194 #1 0x080a9aaa in EWMH_ProcessClientMessage (exc=0x8119670) at ewmh_events.c:1485 #2 0x0806f380 in HandleClientMessage (ea=0xbfd84a14) at events.c:1805 #3 0x0806c031 in dispatch_event (e=0xbfd84a44) at events.c:3969 #4 0x0806c73f in HandleEvents () at events.c:4010 #5 0x0808cba5 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfd854c4) at fvwm.c:2597 (gdb) quit I have compiled a fresh FVWM CVS checkout from 2 hours ago. If I can be of any help diagnosing the problem, please tell me how I can help. Thanks Philipp -- If you have problems in Windows: REBOOT If you have problems in Linux: BE ROOT