Re: Release of gui libraries

[Martin Brecher]

> Hello,
> 
> I have no particular bug to submit but I had some serious troubles recently 
> with GWorkspace.app and GNUMail.app. With those apps, GNUstep was generating 
> huge log error files (500mo in a few hours of usage!). Typical message 
> repeated thousands of times was something like "X Error: Bad Window 
> Parameter". 

I guess it was kind of that:

Jan 24 23:08:24 GWorkspace[28256] X-Windows error - BadWindow (invalid Window 
parameter)
          on display: :0.0
                type: 0
       serial number: 6205
        request code: 15
/opt/GNUstep/System/Tools/openapp: line 100: 28256 Speicherzugriffsfehler  
$full_appname/$appname $@

This happens at my system if I try to deminiaturize a miniaturized window.

>I saved the exact message but since this problem completely crashed my Linux 
>box, I have lost it. (disk full => hardware reset => filesystem corrupted and 
>fsck being unable to repare!)
> 
> So, strictly speaking, this is not a bug (not a crash) but it *may* lead to 
> big problems...
> 
> I was unable to identify the exact source of the error message. Sorry!


Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 1024 (LWP 28298)]
0x406312bc in chunk_free () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0x406312bc in chunk_free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1  0x40631253 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2  0x408e68cf in XFree () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
#3  0x407a405b in _i_XGContext_X11Methods_receivedEvent_type_extra_forMode_ ()
   from 
/opt/GNUstep/System/Library/Bundles/libgnustep-xgps.bundle/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-xgps
#4  0x407a59be in 
_i_XGContext_X11Ops_DPSGetEventMatchingMask_beforeDate_inMode_dequeue_ ()
   from 
/opt/GNUstep/System/Library/Bundles/libgnustep-xgps.bundle/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-xgps
#5  0x400bbde7 in 
_i_NSApplication__nextEventMatchingMask_untilDate_inMode_dequeue_ ()
   from 
/opt/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-gui.so.0
#6  0x400ba7cb in _i_NSApplication__run ()
   from 
/opt/GNUstep/System/Libraries/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/libgnustep-gui.so.0
#7  0x804c4c8 in main ()
#8  0x405dbbaf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6


> Regards, Frédéric
> 

Greetings,
Martin

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