Re: [RP] ratpoison crash

[Matthias Kilian]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:01:43PM +0200, Oleg Katsitadze wrote:
> FWIW, I've got a similar problem, only ratpoison doesn't crash but
> "hangs" -- X starts consuming 99% CPU.  If I manage to ssh to this PC
> and kill X, then I can restart X and everything is working again.  And
> it happens after I press RET for any command I type in the C-t : or
> C-t !  prompts.

I've exactly the same behaviour here, but didn't yet have the time
to debug it.

> I am on up-to-date Debian unstable, tried it on desktop PC and IBM
> Thinkpad R51, same thing.  Ratpoison version 1.4.2-1.  Had to revert
> back to 1.4.0.dfsg-7 on Debian stable, to get my prompts back.  My
> xorg is:
> 
>   X.Org X Server 1.4.0

ratpoison-1.4.2 on OpenBSD-current, and the problem occured after
we switched to X.Org Server 1.4. (currently 1.4.0.90, to be correct).

At least the bug seems to be OS-independent.

Ciao,
        Kili