Bugzilla – Bug 119439
WindowMaker crashes regularly
Last modified: 2005-11-28 16:06:46 UTC
WindowMaker crashes regularly and restarts itself (every few hours) Had the same issue on 9.3, but 10.0 shows it still. Visible effect is a flicker and that all your Windows suddenly appear on a single desktop only. I haven't correleated it to a specific action, but it usually happens after some action on my side (Window change etc.) The kernel log shows: wmaker[6298] general protection rip:465b3a rsp:7fffffc9f040 error:0 The RIP is in WMColorGC and and the crash happens because 205 GC 206 WMColorGC(WMColor *color) 207 { 208 if (!color->gc) { 209 XGCValues gcv; 210 WMScreen *scr = color->screen; 211 (gdb) 212 gcv.foreground = color->color.pixel; 213 gcv.graphics_exposures = False; 214 color->gc = XCreateGC(scr->display, scr->rcontext->drawable, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 215 GCForeground|GCGraphicsExposures, &gcv); 216 } 217 218 return color->gc; 219 } scr->rcontext contains a bogus pointer (not NULL, but some garbage with bits set in the uppermost 8 bits, which is not valid in x86-64)
Nobody interested? It still happens regularly.
I can't reproduce it. Can you please provide backtrace?
It could be this bug: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.compw.window-managers.windowmaker.devel/894 I am going to prepare test package.
The fix was submitted into STABLE. Please test. The package built for STABLE should work on 10.0 too.