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From: gerday@shell.COM
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Subject: Re: xmh core dumping
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Date: 6 Nov 90 19:17:10 GMT
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We've seen the same thing here. The only additional information I have
to add is that it only occurs with libXt patched after fix-8.  On the
same machine (sun4 OS 4.0.3c) with the same xmh binary and shared libs
using libXt patched up to fix-8, no crash; using libXt patched through
fix-18, it crashes predictably after 2 saves. I did get an error
message once while crashing it in dbx: "Error: calloc failed"

Can anyone help?

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> Date: 2 Nov 90 21:03:45 GMT
> From: William J Hallam
<mintaka!think.com!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!antarctica!hal
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> Organization: GE CRD
> Subject: xmh core dumping
> Message-Id: <13371@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
> Sender: xpert-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu
> To: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
> 
> 
> I've just run in to an interesting bug.   I select 
> "Edit Message" from the View menu in xmh, modify a message text and
> then save it.  Fine.  But, if I do it again, I get a core dump.  Dbx
> reports the following:
> 
> (dbx) run
> Running: /usr/bin/X11/xmh
> signal SEGV (segmentation violation) in _XtAddDefaultConverters at 0xf768569c
> 0xf768569c:     ld      [%o4], %o4
> (dbx) where
> _XtAddDefaultConverters() at 0xf768569c
> XtSetSensitive() at 0xf76991a4
> XtSetSensitive() at 0xf7699174
> XtSetSensitive() at 0xf7699174
> XtSetSensitive() at 0xf7699174
> XtSetValues() at 0xf76994d0
> DoSaveView() at 0x10cf4
> _XtCallCallbacks() at 0xf7680a28
> XtCallCallbacks() at 0xf7680c40
> XawSimpleMenuClearActiveEntry() at 0xf772dcc8
> XawScrollbarSetThumb() at 0xf772d11c
> _XtTranslateEvent() at 0xf76a106c
> XtWindowToWidget() at 0xf768944c
> _XtOnGrabList() at 0xf7689c00
> XtDispatchEvent() at 0xf7689cac
> main() at 0x55c4
> 
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> --
>    Will Hallam 
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