Re: randomly dying xterms: not random
Re: randomly dying xterms: not random
- Subject: Re: randomly dying xterms: not random
- From: Ronald Cohen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:41:11 -0700
Update: The behavior is completely reproducible. It happens
whenever I do the following:
Start up X11. I am running without my own .xinitrc so it is starting
up vanilla. Start up some process in the xterm that appears. Open
a new xterm from the X11 Applications menu (the Terminal command is
set to open an xterm). The first xterm freezes and its process dies.
If I repeat the above but don't start up a process in the initial
xterm, then when I open up the second xterm, the first one disappears.
If I instead open up additional xterms by typing "xterm" in the
initial xterm or any subequently created xterm, the above does not
happen. The initial xterm survives and remains alive. (So for
example if I create a second xterm before starting a process in the
first xterm, then open a third xterm from the second, all three xterms
and the process in the first xterm remain alive. If however I then
attempt to start an xterm from the application window, the initial
xterm dies.)
I guess I have a workaround -- bugger org.x.x11.plist so that the
initially launched process is effectively nothing (for example
xlsclients, as suggested in macosxhints) and then execute a .cshrc
that launches my initial xterm. Haven't tried this yet....
Can anyone else reproduce the problem? Sure seems like a bug.
Ron Cohen
On Oct 24, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Ronald Cohen wrote:
With the latest X11 (2.3.1) and Mac OS X 10.5.5, I seem to find
xterms randomly dying. Not frequently, but seemingly about once
a day. Whatever process was running in that xterm (which can be
almost anything) is killed at the same time. It is not confined to
xterms, but seemingly any xwindow; I've also had the experience with
xemacs. X11 itself usually stays alive (though I've had less
frequent crashes of X11 as well).
I'm not sure if I'm seeing something useful here, but I do notice,
at about the right time in the console log, the following:
10/24/08 2:26:01 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x12020 > 0x389a) in reply type 0x20!
10/24/08 2:26:01 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x1206f > 0x389a) in reply type 0x20!
10/24/08 2:26:01 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x16568 > 0x389a) in reply type 0x20!
10/24/08 2:34:05 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x12020 > 0x389a) in reply type 0x20!
10/24/08 2:34:05 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x16570 > 0x389a) in reply type 0xa!
10/24/08 2:34:05 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x12074 > 0x389a) in reply type 0x20!
10/24/08 2:34:15 PM [0x0-0xad0ad].org.x.X11[4134] Xlib: sequence
lost (0x10000 > 0x389a) in reply type 0x20!
I think these may just be the result of my attempt to make this
window active by selecting the window from the "window" menu in
X11. I don't see anything else terribly relevant. Nothing for
example in a crash log.
Anyone else having such experiences, or ideas?
Thanks,
Ron Cohen
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