Bug 134430

Summary:	GTK Apps crash on remote 8-bit pseudocolor X-Terminal
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Bob Vickers <R.Vickers>
Component:	X11 Applications	Assignee:	David Reveman <dreveman>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	gdb traceback

Description Bob Vickers 2005-11-18 16:39:28 UTC

We have a large number of NCD X terminals here. When firefox runs on SuSE 10.0 displaying on one of these terminals then firefox immediately crashes.

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4945
for more information.

This is a showstopper for this site: we cannot contemplate upgrading from SuSE 9.3 until this bug is fixed.

Comment 1 Bob Vickers 2005-11-18 16:41:12 UTC

Created attachment 57738 [details]
gdb traceback

Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2006-01-13 18:25:27 UTC

David, this is one of the bugs we talked about yesterday.  Re-assigning to you for followup upstream.

Comment 3 David Reveman 2006-03-02 13:53:44 UTC

A lot of work to fix this. The workarounds I've tried to get going haven't been working...

Comment 4 Bob Vickers 2006-04-21 13:38:33 UTC

I was just wondering: are SuSE going to fix this or are they abandoning support for 8-bit X servers? We have an unenviable choice at this site:
(1) spend about $25000 on new thin clients in the next couple of months
(2) freeze on SuSE 9.3 until summer 2007 and then buy new equipment
(3) look for a different Linux distribution that does support 8-bit X servers

I need to make a decision pretty quickly because we do all our software upgrades during the summer vacation.

Thanks,
Bob

Comment 5 David Reveman 2006-04-24 15:52:09 UTC

Possible solution:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-March/006588.html

Comment 6 Bob Vickers 2006-04-26 13:03:19 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> Possible solution:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-March/006588.html
> 

Excellent! A colleague applied this fix to Cairo 1.0.4 and we tested it on SuSE 10.0 with an NCD Explora X terminal. It seems to work well.

I imagine it is too late for the fix to get into the initial 10.1 release, but if it were to appear in a later update that would be brilliant.

Comment 7 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:34:04 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 8 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:35:45 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 9 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:41:35 UTC

mass reopening all SuSE Linux bugs that are set to REMIND+LATER to change the resolution to WONTFIX (adapting to new policy)

Comment 10 Stephan Kulow 2008-06-25 09:53:03 UTC

Closing old LATER+REMIND bugs as WONTFIX - if you still plan to work on it, feel free to reopen and set to ASSIGNED.

In case the report saw repeated reopen comments, it's due to bugzilla timing out on the huge request ;(