Fluxbox core dump under 5.3

Scott Long scottl at samsco.org
Tue Sep 7 19:02:19 PDT 2004


Warren Block wrote:
> On 5.3-beta 3, the fluxbox window manager dumps core when a different 
> style is selected: right-click, Fluxbox-menu, Styles, choose any style, 
> boom.  It has happened consistently with all 5.3 beta revisions.
> 
> This does not happen on 5.2.1-RELEASE.
> 
> I'm making world right now to get the latest version, and after that 
> will be able to supply more information.  Right now, I suspect that 
> someone with a debugging setup can experience it just by trying the 
> above procedure on fluxbox.
> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Often times mallow debugging is responsible for these kinds of things.
I've turned it off for each 5.x release so far, and I just turned it
off for RELENG_5 today.  Try updating your sources if you are tracking
RELENG_5, or turn off malloc debugging via:

ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf

Scott


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