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The X server crashes quite often: it seems crashes are much more frequent where the server is asked to render some fonts (killer apps are: Netscape, The Gimp, even xfontsel). The bug shows up also letting the Xserver access the fonts directly (disabling xfs). I was NOT able to reproduce the bug 100% of the times, but just a few minutes of "random" web browsing or rendering some text in some Type1 fonts with the gimp or xfontsel should be enough to trigger it. An X session with just xterms runs for hours without crashes. I've tried the enlightenment WM, icewm, even a plain-old tvtwm (no panel, no backgrounds, ...) with same results. I've tried opening Netscape from other hosts (4.51 for Linux/i386, 4.51 for Solaris) with same results.
We are aware of this problem and are working on a fix for it. Thanks for the information.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2818 ***
Still happens. While it seems to be a little less frequent, it's still there. Just fire The Gimp, and force it to display some text in some of the available fonts. Sooner or later it will crash the X server. Of course, kernel RPM is kernel-2.2.5-21. The system is a Netra i (SparcStation 5). I think the FB is a TurboGX, anyway dmesg says: fb0: cgsix at 0.50000000 TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b and it's a 8 bits (256 colors) depth. There are no messages on X server stderr or syslog. Not all X clients die, actually I have to kill xterms by hand. The system itself never crashed. BTW, the old system was RHL5.1, and worked just fine (for months). Hope this helps.
Can you verify that /etc/silo.conf is in fact setup properly so that it will be booting the new kernel? Just want to verify this. ------- Email Received From Marco Colombo <marco> 06/02/99 06:08 -------
Pasted from attached email: [root@NOC marco]# uname -a Linux NOC.ESI 2.2.5-21 #1 Sun May 23 15:25:41 EDT 1999 sparc unknown [root@NOC marco]# cat /proc/version Linux version 2.2.5-21 (root.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Sun May 23 15:25:41 EDT 1999
running XFree86 3.3.5 (which is about to be released as errata) and kernel 2.2.5-22, available from the updates site, I was able to extensively render type1 fonts in gimp without crashing on the same graphics card you have and a Sparc20. I hope that 3.3.5 will fix your problems. Please get the update when it becomes available (shortly), and if you continue to have issues, re-open the bug.