fluxbox unshade crashing GTK2 applications?

[Randy Pratt]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:35:41 -0500
"Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> 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

I was seeing the same unshading problem with Sylpheed2 with the
new fluxbox.  The above patch seems to fix it.  Oddly, if I ran
sylpheed -sync (as the error message suggested for debugging) then
the unshading problem disappeared so I wasn't able to do any
debugging.

Like the OP, I wasn't sure where the problem originated but reverting
to an older version of fluxbox eliminated the problem.  

Thanks for digging out the patch!

Randy

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