Bug 14862 - s-povray from Povray 3.1g crashes Xfree86
Summary: s-povray from Povray 3.1g crashes Xfree86
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Preston Brown
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Whiteboard: Winston rc1
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-07-30 21:09 UTC by Suhaib Siddiqi
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-07-31 14:59:04 UTC
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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.
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