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Re: Nedit causes fatal error on X server
- To: Hathaway Nigel-NHATHAW1 <NHATHAW1 at motorola dot com>
- Subject: Re: Nedit causes fatal error on X server
- From: Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 17:35:40 +0100
- Cc: "'cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
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That's good.
I'm building a debug XWin now and I'm putting Solaris 2.6 on my SPARC
machine. Will report back when debugged. Is Nedit included with Solaris 2.6 ?
Alan.
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:40:09PM +0100, Hathaway Nigel-NHATHAW1 wrote:
> If you run nedit, the X server immediately exits with the following error
> message:
>
> Fatal server error:
> Negative sized edge?
>
> Presumably clients should not be able to crash the server. (Nedit does not
> crash Exceed).
>
> Nedit was running on SunOS 5.6 on a Sun Sparc. I don't know the version of
> Xwin, but it was downloaded about a week ago. The index.html contains the
> date 9 Feb 1999. The created timestamp on Xwin.exe is 16 July 2000,
> modified on 17 June 2001.
>
> I tried capturing the core dump, but although it said it was dumping to
> XWin.exe.stackdump, that file was never created.
>
> -- Nigel Hathaway