Re: FVWM: Weird fvwm crash bug

From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.demon.co.uk>
Date: 04 Nov 2001 13:45:44 +0000

On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Marcus Lundblad uttered the following:
>
> On 3 Nov 2001, Nix wrote:
>
>> (This probably started happening somewhere in the 2.3.x range, but I
>> jumped straight from 2.2.5 to 2.4.1. It still happens with 2.4.3.)
>
> I've also experianced similar things. Sometimes everything hangs when
> switchning VC. And it happens that my X-Server crashes when trying to log
> out from fvwm2.
>
> fvwm2 2.4.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu kernel 2.4.2-2, Xfree 4.0.3-5

Well, it's nice to know I'm not on drugs, and that whatever it is it
isn't remotely XFree86-version or kernel-version dependent. :)

> I thought maybe it was a hardware problem, perhaps it wasn't...

Doesn't look like it. Test it; stick something in your X startup files
so you get an xterm before the wm starts and when you exit it, the wm
starts up; you'll find you can switch VCs with that xterm running with
impunity. But when fvwm starts, switching VCs is the kiss of death :(

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Received on Sun Nov 04 2001 - 08:01:12 GMT

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