Help debugging xfig lockup?

Niclas Zeising zeising at freebsd.org
Fri Jun 14 19:28:28 UTC 2013


On 2013-06-14 20:39, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 04:13:52PM +0200, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> ....
>> The last few frames look just like what somebody reported 
>> back in 2005(!):
>>   http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2005-September/002206.html
> 
> The expression "The more things change, the more they stay the same"
> comes to mind....
> 
>> In NetBSD's GNATS there is a PR for this issue and it includes a
>> proposed fix, perhaps this solves the problems:
>>   http://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=32445
>> ....
> 
> It did not apply cleaning -- patch rejected it.  So I applied it by
> hand, rebuilt, and reinstalled, and... xfig works now!  :-)
> 
> Thomas -- shall I go ahead and file the PR, or did you want the ...
> honor?  (I'll be happy to credit you with the find, if you'd rather I
> filed the PR.)
> 
> I really like happy endings.... :-)
> 
> Peace,
> david
> 

Please also consider submitting this patch upstream. :)
Regards!
-- 
Niclas


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