RE: mc 4.5.30 crashes X session

["Manuel A. McLure" <mmt Unify Com>]

Repeat after me:

If the program that is keeping X from exiting crashes, it will appear that X
has crashed.
If the program that is keeping X from exiting crashes, it will appear that X
has crashed.
If the program that is keeping X from exiting crashes, it will appear that X
has crashed.

If gmc is causing a crash in gnome-session, you could very well see the X
server "go away" with it being no fault of X.

--
Manuel A. McLure KE6TAW <mmt@unify.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: jg@pa.dec.com [mailto:jg@pa.dec.com]
Sent: Friday, April 16, 1999 11:05 AM
To: Sri Ramkrishna
Subject: Re: mc 4.5.30 crashes X session



> From: Sri Ramkrishna <sri@aracnet.com>
> Resent-From: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:29:20 -0700 (PDT)
> To: gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject: mc 4.5.30 crashes X session
> -----
> Before I file a bug report on this.  I am wondering if anybody else had
> this problem.  If I move a desktop icon (say Home Directory), and it
> causes my whole X session to crash.  Since I couldn't run gdb in a window
> I ran it from console.  Here is the stack trace on it:

Repeat after me:

If your X server crashes, it is a bug in the X server.
If your X server crashes, it is a bug in the X server.
If your X server crashes, it is a bug in the X server.


X servers aren't ever supposed to crash; regard them as you would
the operating system.

All your stack trace is showing is that the server crashed:
that is what XIOError is telling you (as if you didn't know,
by the fact that your whole session went down in flames).

				- Jim Gettys



--
Jim Gettys
Industry Standards and Consortia
Compaq Computer Corporation
Visting Scientist, World Wide Web Consortium, M.I.T.
http://www.w3.org/People/Gettys/
jg@w3.org, jg@pa.dec.com


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