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Requesting a debug XFree86 snapshot (Was Re: -nounixkill doesn't seem to work)
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
> > > xmodmap -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
> >
> > This, however, not only didn't change anything (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace still
> > exited X), but also crashed XWin.exe. I doubt the stack dump is of any
> > use with a non-debug version of XWin, but I can provide it if people
> > request, as well as the corresponding XWin.log (which doesn't contain any
> > details of the crash). I believe I've also posted the details of my setup
> > earlier in this thread. To reproduce the problem, run
> >
> > $ XWin :1.0 -unixkill &
> >
> > Try exiting it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and press "Cancel".
> >
> > $ xmodmap -display :1.0 -e "keycode 22 = BackSpace"
> >
> > Try exiting again with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and press "Exit".
> >
> > XWin will crash with a segfault. I'd be willing to try a debug version
> > and get a real stack trace if developers can't reproduce it.
>
> I can't reproduce it so I'd be glad if you could do so.
>
> bye
> ago
Alexander,
Could you or Harold please post a debug snapshot somewhere? I don't have
a build tree set up, and the problem is relatively minor and doesn't
affect me too much, so I don't have the motivation of setting one up just
now. I will try the debug snapshot, though, and post the stack trace.
Igor
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