[Xastir] Re: {Xastir] Still getting crashes

[Jack Reilly]

On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:49, you wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Jack Reilly wrote:
> > My best uptime is about 8 hours !!!!   Xastir disappears and one of the
> > folowing messages appears in the Konsole window where I started xastir:
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
> > operation)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  58 (X_SetDashes)
> >   Value in failed request:  0x0
> >   Serial number of failed request:  1439567
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  1439568
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for
> > operation)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  56 (X_ChangeGC)
> >   Value in failed request:  0xf4
> >   Serial number of failed request:  2918150
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  2918159
> >
> > Caught Segfault! Xastir will terminate
> > Last incoming line was:
> > Port1:KC5GLG-13>APRS,WIDE3*:$GPGGA,140227,3411.6049,N,11910.7897,W,1,05,1
> >.23,10.8,M,-33.8,M,,*7E 22:00:20
>
> None of the output above looks very suspicious.  If there was a
> timestamp on the X Errors, you might be able to tell whether they
> happened around the time of the segfault.  As is, they probably
> happened quite a bit before, as you were zooming/panning or messing
> with the menus live.
>
> The last incoming line looks ok.  That was put in to the segfault
> handler so that we could easily debug "killer" packets, which are
> malformed packets that used to kill us.  One by one they got taken
> care of, so now that debug output is much less useful.
>
> I'd do the memtest thing to see if your memory/CPU combo is reliable
> as-is.  Also check your serial port I/O addresses and interrupts,
> make sure nothing else is trying to use the same ones.  I think you
> were running with just a serial TNC interface, right?  No AX.25
> networking or internet ports connected to Xastir?

Right no AX25, nothing else connected.

Your mention of zooming, panning etc got me to thinking. I do not remember a 
single time that I got a crash while working with Xastir. The crashes have 
all been when I was away or using some other program.

I decided to try to make a log for a couple of days, of the Xastir msgs -  
that might  provide better info on these continuus crashes. The log is 
attached. I hope there is a clue somewhere.

Jack       aa6vn at pacbell.net