At random times, The X server will crash for no apparrant reason. Sometimes you get an error: "Beziers this large not yet supported" Sometimes, you get no error. This has always been a problem, on many different machines.
What are you doing when it crashes? What X server are you using?
I am using the standard 8bit Xserver that comes with the distribution. Numerous things have caused crashes. Running Netscape (SunOS emu, or native, although the native one is much worse) is one major cause. But, many other times, it is just by dragging an xterm window, or sometimes attempting to launch an additional xterm. There doesn't seem to be any particular thing. The same problem has existed since I started with RH4.1 for sparc.
For what it is worth, my immediate concern is my Sparc 4 (TCX), running Red Hat 5.1 with XFree86-Sun-3.3.2-13. I have seen no mention of problems, so I assume nothing has changed for 5.2. I am not going to upgrade this machien to 5.2 immediately, since the upgrade was such a complete nightmare on my other sparc
Assigned to Jeff for his SPARC expertise.
There is not enough information to reproduce this problem. Upgrade to the latest XFree86 and reopen this bug if still a problem. Many things have changed ... FWIW, I have never seen the described behavior even though I run X11 on sparc-linux every day.
I have also got problems with the 8bit Xserver for sun. It looks like it crashes when I use intensive applications. Eg: freeciv or sced. The machine is an LX with a cgsix video board and RH 5.2.