On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, Taras Ivanenko wrote:

> I was installing Tk 4.0 on my Mac IIcx + Netbsd-1.1 + Generic-5 kernel
> + X.11Mar95 distribution + Xmacbsd-960127. The whole package compiled
> with only minor warnings. When I tried to run the tests, X server died
> on segmentation violation. I checked with gdb, the error occured in
> miPolyFillRect (I am not sure about spelling) function, called from
> PolyFillRect. I can not tell more until I get the sources, recompile
> Xserver, ... The README file for tests says that the tests may not be
> compatible with every server and so on, but I would not expect it to
> die. I am not sure now how usable is the whole tk package.
> 

Hmm.  I've recently been experiencing problems where the Xserver does all 
sorts of wierd stuff when it tries to exit.  Most of the time, it just 
hangs my IIci completely, where I can't even use the NMI switch.  Some of 
the time, it gives me vm_faults.  And some of the time, it works OK!

I've found that it is much more rel;iable to exit properly if I first get 
rid of all the ap-plications (like, xman, xconsole, xterm, etc.) that I 
start up before letting the server itself exit.  But it's still not a 
100% solution.

One thing I've noticed is that when I use the workspace menu option to 
try to kill some of the applications, I get a "watch cursor" that won't 
go away.  When I next press the mouse button, I get some other strange 
looking cursor, and then I get the normal X cursor when releasing the mouse.

Strange...