Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 13:51:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Lars Gerhard Kuehl <lgk@eiche.bik-gmbh.de> To: helbig@MX.BA-Stuttgart.De, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/3927: xview library fails on -current and on 2.2.x Message-ID: <199707211151.NAA00300@eiche.bik-gmbh.de>
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> > * The "notifier: bad file number" message and subsequent segmentation > > * fault still occurs on any xview-lib client if the 2.2.2- built > > * xview-lib package is used. But this error only shows if the process > > * uid is zero, i. e. if you launch the xview application as root. > > > > Really? I saw this before when I was running workman as non-root. > > Puh--finally someone else saw this phaenomenon! I already started > to believe seeing things :-) It was just me and someone from > the questions list that reported this xview-lib problem and everyone > else said: ''works fine on my system''. Well, that looks quite more complicated to me: After an upgrade to 2.2.2-RELEASE I saw all xview clients crashing in notify_start() quite independent on the uid. Curiously this does not happen if the programs are called in the CDE - so far the uid is not 0. ;-) The crashes are caused by a damaged stack, the return address from (randomly different) functions called by notify_start() is 0x0. The proplems arose without installing new xview binaries, even the libs were the same which could be used under 2.2.1-RELEASE flawlessly. I tried that with XF86-3.3 libs, older 3.2 libs and the X libraries delivered with CDE 1.0.10, I reinstalled and rebuilt the xview libs and clients - the scarcely desired behaviour does not change. BTW, since installing 2.2.2-RELEASE kaffe is crashing, but haven't yet spent any time to investigate it. And not to forget all that happens only on a single machine. I can access several others running 2.2.2-RELEASE, where all xview applications and kaffe work as expected. Happy investigations :-) Lars
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