Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: "segmentation erroron Sun" Message-ID: <8810101720.AA19999@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Oct 88 17:20:17 GMT References: <8810101619.AA19823@ti.com> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: DEC/MIT Project Athena Lines: 7 From your stack trace, it looks to me as though someone has written on your arglist before the call to XtCreateManagedWidget. In particular, the 'name' field of one of your args seems to have been tromped; it normally contains a pointer to a printable string. There is no known Xt bug that causes exactly the symptoms you report. XrmStringToQuark is documented in section 10.11.2 of the Xlib manual.