From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 17 01:07:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03099 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:07:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA03093 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 01:07:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA00713; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:37:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980717173714.Q566@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 17:37:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of current... References: <13742.59308.502069.876495@compound.east> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <13742.59308.502069.876495@compound.east>; from Tony Kimball on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 01:01:45AM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 17 July 1998 at 1:01:45 -0500, Tony Kimball wrote: > FYI: After good function and stability at the beginning of the month, > it's starting to look pretty sad... rcmds to foreign platforms are > not working (again--resurrecting an *old* bug), X applications are > failing (in particular: > netscape: X Error of failed request: BadPixmap (invalid Pixmap parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 56 (X_ChangeGC) > Resource id in failed request: 0x50038 > Serial number of failed request: 117146 > Current serial number in output stream: 117380 > > netscape: X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error) > Major opcode of failed request: 22 (X_SetSelectionOwner) > Serial number of failed request: 117147 > Current serial number in output stream: 117380 > etc.) And yesterday xemacs wrote a bunch of nulls instead of the > proper end of the source file I was editing (realloc failing to copy perhaps?). > In all, pretty shaky. I was wondering if something was wrong, too. I haven't had this particular problem, but I've had a number of processes, including Emacs, hang in select after VisibilityNotify events, unable to update their displays. It's nothing enough to be sure that anything's wrong, but enough to be noticable. I'm rebuilding with the latest -current (as of about 2 hours ago), and will try again. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message