fluxbox unshade crashing GTK2 applications?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:07:09 -0500, L Campbell <llc2w at virginia.edu> wrote:

> (This probably isn't the right place to ask, but I figured I'd start
> here and head upstream if necessary).
>
> Since updating to fluxbox 1.1.0.1 last night (and x11-toolkits/gtk20
> to revision 1), attempting to unshade a shaded GUI application is
> causing the application to segfault with a BadAlloc X Window System
> error. This behavior was not observed before updating. Tested with
> www/firefox3, graphics/gimp and graphics/inkscape. For all three
> applications, unshading produces the following error --
>
> The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 3250 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error()  
> function.)
>
> I'm not really sure if this is an issue with fluxbox, GTK, or my own
> configuration. It seems like only GTK2 applications crashing --
> audio/aumix uses GTK 1.2 and doesn't crash on unshade. Relevant
> version information follows, please advise on appropriate course of
> action :(
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD kanaria.desudesudesu.org 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Fri
> Aug  1 17:05:27 EDT 2008
> hark at kanaria.desudesudesu.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KANARIA  i386
>
> x11-wm/fluxbox-1.1.0.1
> $ fluxbox -version
> Fluxbox 1.1.0.1 : (c) 2001-2008 Fluxbox Team
>
> x11-toolkits/gtk-1.2.10_20
> x11-toolkits/gtk-2.12.11_1
>
> www/firefox-3.0.1_1,1
> $ firefox3 -version
> Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2008 mozilla.org
>
> graphics/gimp-2.4.7,2
> $ gimp --version
> GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.4.7
>
> graphics/inkscape-0.46_3
> $ inkscape --version
> Inkscape 0.46 (Jul  6 2008)
>
> Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help get this fixed.  
> Thanks :(

Try to fetch this patch and put in x11-wm/fluxbox/files/, then reinstall  
fluxbox. It was took from its git.

http://people.freebsd.org/~mezz/diff/patch-fix_unshading_crash

Cheers,
Mezz


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