re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-09 Thread Van Damme Michael
>rgheck wrote: >>> >> I'll have a look at this under one of my Fedora 10 machines. >> >As I said in the bug report, I was unable to reproduce this problem >under F10, even fully updated. And that was using the test file attached >to the report, trying to follow the instructions given. It's pos

re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-08 Thread Van Damme Michael
>> I have downloaded version 1.6.2svn (from the svn server) and tried it, but >> the problem remains. >> >Is is quick enough to reproduce (or you comuputer fast enough) to run >Lyx under valgrind until you hit the problem? > >James I've never used valgrind, but it is quick to reproduce. When

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel and Steve, thanks for your helpful comments. >maybe. but there are striking similarities - lyx input frozen, no cpu load, bt >points somewhere >in between qt<->xorg, libxcb used; (in this we enter there through >QInputContext::reset()). It's true that there are many similarities. There a

Re:Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Pavel Sanda wrote: >> #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () >> #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/libc.so.6 >> #2 0x00911295 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 >> #3 0x0091293f in xcb_wait_for_event () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 > >ahh i have seen this backtrace >i guess you are the next

Re: Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Thank you for your reply. I've compiled lyx-1.6.1 in debug mode (using the latest stable source available on the lyx site) and ran it under gdb. Once locked-up, I interrupted it in gdb and got the following backtrace: #0 0x00943416 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0x006a83d1 in select () from /lib/

Very frequent crashes in 1.6.1 (with loss of work)

2009-03-07 Thread Van Damme Michael
Hi all, over the last few months, I've been writing my thesis in lyx (using it many hours every day). I'm using lyx-1.6.1 on fedora 10 (the version available through fedora's package manager yum). Since this week, however, I'm experiencing very frequent crashes (being able to work for 15 minute