Re: FVWM: Abort from FRenderRender -> XRenderCreatePicture()

On Tue, 23 Jan 2024, Jaimos Skriletz wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 6:07=E2=80=AFAM Mark Hills <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm experiencing rare (but annoying) whole X session crashes, since
> > mid-2023.
> >
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> There was a change in libX11 that caused fvwm crashes due to event
> handling. That has been fixed in fvwm3, and the fix isn't in fvwm2
> yet, but you can find the patch here:
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> https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm/pull/102
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> Maybe test out that patch and see if that helps.

Thanks, the description does indeed seem like it could be a match.

I'm now running 2.7.0+patch. It passes the basic 'sniff' test and I will=20
try and exercise the bug.

Assuming it survives on my system, I think this should be merged and a 2.x=
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"stable bugfix" release made speedily. Distributions already pushed libX11=
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and broke the current FVWM.

Most users are just going to just see an unstable system. It's hard to=20
reproduce and took time to rule out xdm, xorg etc..

Many thanks for the fast diagnosis.

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