Re: TreeView crashes X server?

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Arjan J. Molenaar wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I'm having some problems with the TreeView stuff of GTK+ 2.0. It seems
> like this widget somehow causes an X server crash. If for some reason
> the X server itself doesn't crash I get a message that I should use the
> --sync option to produce reliable coredumps. However, if I turn on this
> option, the program works (mostly) fine. 
>
> Well, I encountered the problem when I was writing a small program in
> Python (and used the PyGTK bindings). This (Python) might be the
> problem, but according to some checks I did, the problem seems to be
> somewhat more sophisticated.
If you are using the (horrendously) leaky GenericTreeModel python class 
as a base, it could be that you are simply running out of memory. 
Generally, a client can't crash the X server (if it can, then it is a 
bug in the X server).  However, if the system runs out of memory, you 
may run into problems.

If it isn't a memory issue ignore the above, and maybe someone else can 
help you :)

James.

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