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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:08:16 -0000 (GMT)
From: Tony Gale <gale@syntax.dera.gov.uk>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes
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On 13-Feb-2001 David Woodhouse wrote:
> The crashes got less frequent when I started running X against
> glibc-2.1
> (note _running_ against glibc-2.1, not just compiling against it
> and running
> against glibc-2.2). But they were still happening. 

I'm running RH6.2 with glibc-2.1.3-22

> 
> In the week or so since killing xscreensaver, neither of the boxen
> on which
> I was seeing this have fallen over. Another box on which I killed 
> xscreensaver but didn't run X against glibc-2.1 is still suffering,
> albeit 
> less frequently. 

Yes, a number of the xscreensaver modules cause XFree to crash - they
always have. I have previously tested them all and disabled the ones
that crash Xfree.

But, under 2.4 I have had X crash whilst I've been using it - which
didn't happen under 2.2.

> 
> Looks like two separate bugs - I see no reason to expect that
> there's only 
> one such bug causing X to fall over :)

It's a good premise :-)

-tony


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