[Xmonad] Re: xmonad crashing

Donald Bruce Stewart dons at cse.unsw.edu.au
Wed Jul 11 19:41:55 EDT 2007


alec:
> Andy Gimblett on 2007-07-11 10:39:44 +0100:
> 
> > On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 08:11:02PM +0200, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> > >
> > > >>  Indeed, further testing indicates that it only occurs when I am
> > > >>  using the Tabbed layout.
> > >
> > > I think it's the same here, but I'm not exactly sure.
> >
> > I'd like to add my voice and report that I've been experiencing
> > intermittent crashing too, as of the last few days (perhaps since the
> > weekend?).
> 
> I updated for the first time in several days and can reliably crash
> xmonad by running glxgears.  I haven't run glxgears in a while, but I
> have run it in the past few weeks with xmonad and neither crashed.
> 
> I am seeing a slightly different error, though; instead of an error on
> free() as in the original report, xmonad dies on a munmap_chunk:
> 
> *** glibc detected *** xmonad: munmap_chunk(): invalid pointer: 0x000000000045b9c0 ***
> ======= Backtrace: =========
> /lib/libc.so.6(cfree+0x1b6)[0x2ac3f68fe816]
> /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XFree+0x9)[0x2ac3f5fee4d9]
> xmonad[0x478498]
> 
> Additionally, this error happens if I run glxgears, not if I try to
> close it, as some of the others have reported.  When running with dwm, I
> don't see the same crash.

So just:

    $ glxgears

?

Can anyone else reproduce this?

-- Don


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