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From: hoyt@laura.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: problems with ultrix 4.0 X servers on decstation 3100
Message-ID: <1990Sep24.112114@laura.alf.dec.com>
Date: 24 Sep 90 15:21:14 GMT
References: <1990Sep23.171606.16370@cs.umn.edu>
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In article <1990Sep23.171606.16370@cs.umn.edu>, luke@umnstat.uucp (Luke Tierney)
writes:
|> From: luke@umnstat.uucp (Luke Tierney)
|> We recently installed ULTRIX 4.0 and the 4.01 upgrade on a Decstation
|> 3100 and ran into two problems that may be bugs in the X rervers. The
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|> Luke Tierney
|> luke@umnstat.stat.umn.edu
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|> BUG2
|> ====
|> 
|> Freeing a color allocated with XAllocColor or XAllocNamedColor
|> produces an error. The program freecolorbug exercises this. The
|> problem does not occur on an MIT R4 server running on a sun 3/50. I
|> think it also does not occur in ULTRIX 3.x servers.
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I ran this program on a DECstation 3100 with ULTRIX 4.0 (and the mandatory
patches) using Xcfb. Repeatedly running freecolorbug resulted in the message
"No Error" each time. Do we have differing environments of some kind?

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