Re: xfwm4 crashes on NetBSD 9.99.17 (was "Re: firefox dumping core after NetBSD upgrade")

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

I don't remove xfwm4.xml, just set use_compositing setting to no. Then
I am able to start xfce4 without a problem many times. EVen if I
delete that file - out of xfce4 - then startxfce4, it starts first
time; on exit use_compositing is set to true, subsequent startxfce4
starts, but without xfwm4 (and a longer delay to dump core); as I have
a terminal in the session, I still can edit xfwm4.xml, set
use_compositing to false and nohup xfwm4...

On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 05:49, David H. Gutteridge <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 19:52 -0400, David H. Gutteridge wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-10-29 at 10:38 +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> > > I've tested xfce4 - a few days old build from -current pkgsrc - now
> > > on
> > > real hardware with functional dri2. I get the same as with the
> > > VirtualBox client - I have to disable compositing to get xfwm4
> > > working. At the same time glmark2 returns the usual or close to
> > > results.
> >
> > What do you find if you disable compositing to get Xfce to start, and
> > then enable it once xfwm4 is running successfully? I find that seems
> > to
> > work. So it fails some sort of initial probing, but then is able to
> > activate the feature later, anyway. (As if there are two different
> > code
> > paths for this, or something is getting corrupted in memory during
> > start up, but that isn't happening later on. I haven't had a chance to
> > look at it in gdb again, yet.)
>
> Sorry, that's the wrong example, the right example is:
>
> - Move or delete the xfwm4.xml file from the .config path
> - Start Xfce
> - Go to Window Manager Tweaks->Compositor
> - Note that the compositor is enabled, and related setting changes (e.g.
> opacity of window decorations) successfully apply.
>
> Yet, on the next startup cycle, xfwm4 crashes. (And it crashes with my
> previous example of starting with the compositor turned off, and then
> turning it on.)
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
>


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