From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 17 02:57:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11869 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 02:57:19 -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 CAA11864 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 02:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id TAA00497; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:25:34 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980717192534.B342@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 19:25:34 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: alk@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of current... References: <19980717173714.Q566@freebie.lemis.com> <6601.900665763@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <6601.900665763@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Fri, Jul 17, 1998 at 10:56:03AM +0200 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 10:56:03 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> 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. > > I've seen this problem too. It still seems to be there with the latest -current. 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