[Xquartz-dev] Re: Xquartz-1.3.0-apple3

[Jeremy Huddleston]

I put up a new version (1.3.0-apple4) which disables alloca.  Please  
try that out to see if it helps you with the crashes.  I'll go  
download that gimp release and give it a try as well.

--Jeremy

http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads

On Dec 7, 2007, at 14:25, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:

> I'll put out a version with alloca disabled for you to test in a bit.
>
> --Jeremy
>
> On Dec 7, 2007, at 14:11, Simone Karin Lehmann wrote:
>
>>
>> Am 06.12.2007 um 05:15 schrieb Jeremy Huddleston:
>>
>>> I've just pushed Xquartz-1.3.0-apple3 to the server and source  
>>> code is uploading now.  wiki will be updated soon.
>>>
>>> Pretty much the only change users will notice over 1.3.0-apple2  
>>> (from X11-2.1.0.1.pkg) is a hook to disable fbBlah calls.  If you  
>>> have been experiencing crashes in fbFill or other calls that start  
>>> with fb, then try this out and let us know how it works for you:
>>>
>>> Start Terminal.app and  execute:
>>> $ touch /tmp/disable_fb.txt
>>>
>>> Now launch X and try to crash it.
>>
>>
>> This doesn't work for me.
>> I've tried it and I can still get X to crash in fbBlah routines.
>>
>> I'm using Gimp. You can download it from http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Gimp_unter_Mac_OS_X_files/Gimp%202.4.2%20Leopard.dmg
>>
>> Now open an image with big dimensions. Mine is a 3474x2314 tiff  
>> image.
>> Duplicate the background layer twice by clicking on the duplicate  
>> layer icon in gimp's toolbox window.
>> Now click on the menu text in the image window _without_ first  
>> clicking on the image window's title bar.
>> Crash.
>> Works every time :-(
>>
>> FYI: I use the click_trough feature of quartz_wm.
>>
>> Simone
>>
>> -- 
>> in the arms of your angel, you may find some comfort here.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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