Re: Test 23 crashes - "negative sized edge?"

[Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite dot demon dot co dot uk>]

Looks like a problem in the Type1 font rasterizer.

xc/lib/font/Type1/regions.c

Need to stick some printf's around there to debug.

Alan.

On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 08:14:49PM -0400, Harold Hunt wrote:
> John,
> 
> Huh... Test23 was the first test build to come directly from XFree86's CVS
> tree, whereas all previous builds were from a tarball of the 4.0.3 sources.
> I'm going to have to think that the error you are seeing is a bug that was
> introduced somewhere between 4.0.3 and now.  In any case, I don't think it
> is anything that we did, nor would we know how to fix it.
> 
> Thanks for reporting the bug nonetheless,
> 
> Harold
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of John A.
> > Turner
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 8:09 PM
> > To: Cygwin XFree86 mailing list
> > Subject: Test 23 crashes - "negative sized edge?"
> >
> >
> > Summary
> > -------
> >
> > when displaying XEmacs from Irix, although 4.0.3 and Test 22 work
> > fine, Test 23 crashes with the msg:
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > negative sized edge?
> > Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill
> > or server shutdown).
> > Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill
> > or server shutdown).
> >
> > Details
> > -------
> >
> > Environment is:
> >
> > Win2k, SP1
> > Cygwin 1.3.1
> > XFree86 4.0.3, Test 22, and Test 23
> >
> > startup script:
> >
> > @echo off
> >
> > SET DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0.0
> > SET PATH=.;%PATH%;\cygwin\bin;\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
> > SET XFCE_DATA=\cygwin\usr\X11R6\var
> >
> > bash -c "nohup bash -c 'xwin -screen 0 1280x1024x32 -whitepixel
> > 255 -blackpixel 0
> > -engine 4 &'" &
> > bash -c "nohup bash -c 'xfwm &'" &
> > start /B rxvt -fn "Lucida Console-12" -e bash
> >
> > @echo on
> >
> > when ssh'd to a remote firewall, then rsh'd to an Irix box, I set DISPLAY
> > appropriately and display clients back to cygwin/xfree86
> >
> > simple things like xclock work fine on 4.0.3 and all the Test versions I
> > tried, including 22 and 23
> >
> > however, although XEmacs (version 21.5b1) works fine with 4.0.3
> > and Test 22,
> > Test 23 crashes - here's the full log from nohup.out:
> >
> > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> > winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> > winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000000f
> > winSetEngine () - Using user's preference: 4
> > winCreateBoundingWindowWindowed () - WindowClient width 1280 height 1024
> > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff RGB 8 d 32
> > winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Returning
> > error opening security policy file
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy
> > XFWM message (type Read):  Skipping '.xfwmrc': not in $HOME nor
> > /usr/local/etc/xfce
> > XFWM message (type Read):  trying to read system rc file
> > XFWM message (type Read):  Skipping 'xfwmrc': not in $HOME nor
> > /usr/local/etc/xfce
> > XFWM message (type SessionInit):  X Session Manager not available
> > Using builtin session management instead
> >
> > *** WARNING ***: Cannot load pixmap file \cygwin\usr\X11R6\var/XFce3.logo
> > *** WARNING ***: Cannot load pixmap file \cygwin\usr\X11R6\var/XFce3.logo
> > /home/turner/.xfbdrc File not found.
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > negative sized edge?
> > Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill
> > or server shutdown).
> > Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to 127.0.0.1:0.0 broken (explicit kill
> > or server shutdown).
> >
> > other items of possible interest:
> >
> > o engines 1 and 2 fail in the same way
> > o using twm instead of xfwm results in the same crash
> >
> > just to re-emphasize, I've been using Test 22 all day with no problems
> >
> > if there's anything you'd like me to try, I'll be happy to...
> >
> > thanks...
> >
> > -John Turner