Subject: Re: Bus errors on -current with certain X11 apps
To: Michael-John Turner <mj@turner.org.za>
From: Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 12/28/2006 15:06:04
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Hello,

On Dec 28, 2006, at 08:27, Michael-John Turner wrote:

>> Also: Sometimes I get garbeld screen output in some window areas. It 
>> is
>> easy to reproduce with sylpheed-claws, but I have seen it with xterm
>> too. The xterm incident was related to konqueror. Some actions in
>> konqueror garbeld the xterm window.
>
> I haven't seen any screen oddities yet. I've actually been very 
> impressed
> with how well my dual Creator3D setup has been working with -current. 
> Kudos
> to those responsible!

Which model do you have? I've seen this on an ffb2+ ( or vertical 
Creator3D ) and Jochen has a horizontal ffb1 IIRC.

>> Maybe this is not a problem of NetBSD, but one of the libs from pkgsrc
>> like gtk?
>
> I haven't gotten as far as being able to build gtk - one of the other
> problems I'm having is related to pango not building properly due to 
> cairo
> not building shared libs. But that's a problem for another day :)

Last time I played with this on sparc64 was before they switched to 
cairo.

>> And: Do we have a swap problem? It seems that applications like to
>> crash when they get paged / swaped out and back in.
>
> Haven't seen this one, but my U60 hasn't swapped much. I know in the 
> past
> there were issues with applications that used native threads having 
> issues
> when they were paged out/in.

Gecko seems very prone to this, regular gtk2 and qt3 apps seem to catch 
this problem rarely if at all. I've yet to see a gtk1 app getting 
bitten by this.

have fun
Michael
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