Message-Id: <199906111920.OAA00225@earthlink.net>
To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Signal 11 in Xservers 
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:20:24 -0500
From: J Scott Berg <jsberg AT earthlink DOT net>
Reply-To: pgcc AT delorie DOT com


FWIW, the problem occurs in Xnest as well, which is at least a bit more
convenient to debug.  Also, someone earlier had localized the problem
to libfont.a.  You can play with xlsfonts and do a limited listing
(e.g., xlsfonts -fn '-adobe-courier-medium-r-*'), and it will work
fine; only when a large number of fonts are listed will it crash.  The
problem occurs even without optimization, but the crash occurs at a
different spot (oddly enough, it happens when the dynamic linker tries
to find the stat function); that crash occurs after closing the last
client (which should reset Xnest).

I can't fathom how to get the main server to dump core either (both
ulimit is set and the -core flag is used).

				-Scott Berg