[Xquartz-dev] X11 crashing

[Jeremy Huddleston]

Could you please:

1) Try 2.3.2_rc4
2) email me the crash log (copy paste the contents of the "usual OS X  
panel that says that the app X11 has quit unexpectedly")

On Dec 19, 2008, at 11:41, Peyton Bland wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all, here's what I have:
>
> Hardware:
>  Model Name:       iMac
>  Model Identifier:   iMac5,1
>  Processor Name:   Intel Core 2 Duo
>  Memory:	           2 GB
> OS X v10.5.5
> X11.app: the "About X11" window shows: XQuartz 2.3.1 (xorg-server  
> 1.4.2-apple17)
>
> Ever since I started using X11 on this system, I've been plagued  
> with crashes when I run an app known as AVS5 from an xterm window.   
> When I say "crash", I mean that X11 and the xterm window go away,  
> and I'm presented with the usual OS X panel that says that the app  
> X11 has quit unexpectedly, etc.  Although I could give details of  
> what AVS5 is doing at the time of the crash, it's an obscure app,  
> and I'm not sure if the specific details would help (unless someone  
> is familiar with it).  Suffice to say that it's a graphical  
> visualization app/environment that puts up lots of widgets, image  
> display windows, etc.
>
> I used to run X11 v1.0 on another machine (G4 laptop, 512MB memory,  
> IIRC) under OS X v10.3 with no problems of this sort at all even  
> when running AVS5.  AVS5 has not changed, so I'm assuming that it's  
> something in this vdersion of X11 or the underlying libs.
>
> How do I go about troubleshooting this?  What kind of things should  
> I look for?  (Please realize that I'm not an OS X software  
> developer, and do not use any of Apple's software development  
> tools.  However, I am somewhat conversant in *nix and programming in  
> general.)
>
> Thanks,
> Peyton Bland
>
> P.S.: If this is an inappropriate question for this forum, I  
> apologize and would appreciate any suggestions for a suitable forum.
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