[Xquartz-dev] X11 2.3.1 on Leopard

[Jordan Hubbard]

Sorry, what version of Leopard again. This sounds like an old tty  
driver bug that hit Terminal.app too, but it was fixed in a SU.

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On Dec 5, 2008, at 18:35, Glenn Eychaner <geychaner at mac.com> wrote:

> On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:20 PM, xquartz-dev-request at lists.macosforge.org  
> wrote:
>
>> Message: 6
>> Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 12:46:46 -0800
>> From: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Xquartz-dev] X11 2.3.1 on Leopard upgraded from Tiger
>>
>> On Dec 5, 2008, at 07:16, Glenn Eychaner wrote:
>>
>>> We're having a bunch of problems with the X11 2.3.1 package.
>>>
>>> 1) In the Customize Applications panel, the "Command" and "Name"
>>> titles are reversed.
>>
>> Wow, I can't believe nobody noticed that before.  It's fixed now in  
>> git.
>>
>>> 2) Frequently, the Applications menu stops being able to launch
>>> Xterms.
>>
>> Explain what you mean by this?  Is there anything useful in  
>> system.log?
>
> Here is an exact sequence of events:
> 1) Open X11 by starting an xgterm (or xterm).
> 2) Open and close some windows (in our case, xterms, cxgterms, and  
> SAO DS9) using the Applications menu.
> 3) Go back to the original xgterm.  Sometimes, it will be hung (no  
> keyboard input, and messages in the Terminal it was started from).
> 4) Once it is hung, try to close it repeatedly with Cmd-W.  It  
> won't...at first.
> 5) Open some more windows.
> 6) Try again to close that original Xterm.  Eventually, it will close.
> 7) Once it does, try to open another xterm.  It won't.
> 8) Try to quit X11.  Get a spinning beachball.
> 9) Force-quit X11, usually twice.
>
>> I don't see anything that would show a hang of X11 there.  Do you  
>> have
>> a trace?
>
> Two crash instances (The Terminal output from the first xgterm, the  
> system log, and the crash dump) are attached, in a zipped archive.
>
> -G,
> --
> Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl)
> Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory
>
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