Bryson Borg:
> i would like to report an apparent bug in fvwm2 that extends up to
> 2.0.45. the problem occurrs with the program Maelstrom running on an X
> server managed by fvwm2 with libc-5.4.x. this bug manifests itself in
> Maelstrom having a window if indefinately large size that extends to the
> right and below.
This problem happened to my Maelstrom too, but it got corrected by another
release. Here's some info I found on debian's bug tracking system about this:
| From: Philippe Troin <phil_at_fifi.org>
|
|
| On Sun, 01 Dec 1996 19:44:37 PST Philippe Troin (phil_at_fifi.org) wrote:
|
| > Package: maelstrom
| > Version: 1.4.1-L6-4
| >
| > I don't know why, but now maelstrom opens a real huge window, but it
| > used to work correctly. Real huge means 13936x825, as reported by
| > xwininfo
| > Maybe it's the new libc ?
|
| Confirmed. The insidious malloc bug stroke again. An export
| LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libgnumalloc.so fixed the problem.
|
| Phil.
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Received on Fri Feb 14 1997 - 21:41:42 GMT