Bug 14862

Summary:	s-povray from Povray 3.1g crashes Xfree86
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi>
Component:	XFree86	Assignee:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	Winston rc1
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Description Suhaib Siddiqi 2000-07-30 21:09:16 UTC

I think it is svgalib issue.

If i use s-povray from Povray 3.1g, it causes immediate crash of X-server
(XFree86 4.0.1)

Using x-povray works ok.

Suhaib

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2000-07-30 22:17:42 UTC

This defect is considered MUST-FIX for Winston Release-Candidate #1

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-07-31 14:56:29 UTC

What card? (I seriously doubt this is going to get fixed
for any release candidate... we don't even ship spovray.

Comment 3 Suhaib Siddiqi 2000-07-31 14:59:02 UTC

GeForce, with XFree86 4.0.1 and NO nvidia drivers... all defaults.
I know you do not ship s-povray.  since s-povray was causing x to crash, I 
thought it might be svga library and worth letting RedHat know.

Comment 4 Preston Brown 2000-09-11 18:55:11 UTC

anything that is setuid (such as spovray) can wreak total havoc with the
hardware directly.  This is why X crashes.

spovray is the culprit here, not X.