Devuan bug report logs - #751
xserver-xorg-core 21.1.7-1: I can reliably kill the server after some clicks in the root window.

Package: fvwm; Maintainer for fvwm is (unknown); Source for fvwm is src:fvwm.

Affects: fvwm

Reported by: Stefan Schippers <stefan.schippers@gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 13:56:02 UTC

Severity: critical

Tags: debian

Merged with 746

Fixed in version 1:2.7.0-2

Done: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>

Forwarded to https://bugs.debian.org/1034054

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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Stefan Schippers <stefan.schippers@gmail.com>
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Stefan,

On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 11:16:01PM +0100, Stefan Schippers wrote:
> Hi, Mark
> 
> Thank you for the info.
> 
> I confirm that downgrading the following packages to 1.8.3-3:
> 
> libx11-6
> libx11-data
> libx11-dev
> libx11-xcb-dev
> libx11-xcb1
> 
> fixes completely my (fvwm) window manager crashes.

Good to know, thanks

> I have marked on 'hold' the above packages to prevent upgrades until it gets fixed.
> 
> A huge number of packages depend on this library, so I hope the regression will be addressed.

Yes, I am slightly surprised there isn't more noise about it in Debian. But
src:libx11 isn't forked in Devuan so there isn't much else we can do about it
directly.

I suggest you add your gdb trace and workaround to the Debian bug in order to
move this forward.

Thanks

Mark

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Devuan bug report logs - #751 xserver-xorg-core 21.1.7-1: I can reliably kill the server after some clicks in the root window.

Devuan bug report logs - #751
xserver-xorg-core 21.1.7-1: I can reliably kill the server after some clicks in the root window.