Re: Crashing X

From: Paul Starzetz (Paul.Starzetzat_private)
Date: Tue Dec 11 2001 - 02:43:36 PST

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KF wrote:

> I reported a similar issue several months ago... I was seeing X crash 
> via xterm -title `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'`
> and also with html web pages with long title tags... Heres some strace 
> snippits. I am on a ppc linux box Mandrake 8.0

Same for stock SuSE 7.3 and kernel 2.4.16. The xterm window will show 
up, but after a few seconds, the X crashes completely.

/ih

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