RE: mc 4.5.30 crashes X session

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

It might apear to crash X if it crashes gnome-session...
In wich case it would be a gnome-session bug...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	jg@pa.dec.com [SMTP: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
> 
> 
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