[Xastir] V1.8.4 Stable crashing on Fedora Core 6, View windows unusual

[Bill Bird]

I've changed window managers to TWM and am getting Xastir V1.8.4 crashing at the 
same frequency.  My terminal screen shows a seg fault now each time.  I am using 
the same sequence of mouse clicks except I am usually adding the placement of 
the curser into the send message window before I hit close.  I added this step 
because with the extra step Xastir crashes in one to four times but without the 
placement of the cursor it doesn't crash until five or six times.

The libraries shown in the Xastir Help-About are:
Festival
ImageMagick
ShapeLib
PCRE
DbFawk map_caching@(#)GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.95.0  (Don't know why 
these two are run together in window display so I typed as I see it)
ImageMagick 6.2.8 08/23/06 Q16 file:/usr/share/ImageMagick-6.2.8/doc/index.html
xvertext routines Copyright (c) Alan Richardson, version 5.00

With TWM I don't have, or don't know how to have, more than one desktop so I 
can't see about being able to move the view-incoming data and view-message 
traffic to different desktops.  Otherwise, with TWM, the Xastir view windows 
seem to behave correctly.

I'd like to next try Xastir V1.8.2 which I had been using on FC3 for a long 
time.  (On a long shot I tried running the V1.8.2 executable on my FC6 machine 
but had a library error so it did not start)

Is there any special way of doing the configure, make, and make install with 
Xastir V1.8.2 knowing that I already have done the same on this computer but 
with V1.8.4?

Thanks,

Bill Bird
KG0YJ



Curt Mills wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006, Bill Bird wrote:
> 
> 
>>I can get Xastir V1.8.4 to crash by starting the program, and then doing the
>>following (I may have to do the following up to about 5 times):
>>
>>1)selecting my station by a mouse right click (or another station if I have
>>opened my serial port and other stations have begun to appear),
>>
>>2) selecting Station Info by a mouse click
>>
>>3) selecting Send Message by a mouse click
>>
>>4) not writing any message but just selecting Close by mouse click.
>>
>>Xastir disappears and is no longer running.  It will restart without a
>>problem.
> 
> 
> I tried the same sequence a bunch of times with the current CVS code
> and couldn't get it to crash.  I tried it with just doing the Send
> Message/Close and with the same but closing the Station Info
> dialog each time as well.
> 
> Are you using Lesstif or OpenMotif, and which version?  I'm using
> OpenMotif-2.2.3 here.
> 
> 
> 
>>I did notice when I first used Xastir V1.8.4 that the varous View windows did
>>not act like they did in previous Xastir versions.  The View windows did not
>>seem fully independent.  I normally start Xastir on one desktop and then place
>>the View-Incoming Data window in another desktop and the View-Message Traffic
>>in a third desktop.  In the past this was easily accomplished by selecting
>>View-Incoming Data, right clicking on the View-Incoming Date window border,
>>and selecting move to desktop number ...  If I do this with Xastir V1.8.4 the
>>View-Incoming Data Window moves to the selected desktop number but so does the
>>entire Xastir display.a
> 
> 
> Could be a Lesstif or Motif issue.  I don't recall any changes to
> how we did the View dialogs lately, but perhaps I just forgot.
> 
> 
>>With my workaround the only problem I am having is the crashing. I do wonder
>>why the various View-windows do not act independently when directed to other
>>desktops.
> 
> 
> You might try another window manager to see if it's an Xastir
> problem or a window manager problem.  It could also be a compiler or
> libc problem.
> 
> Another check:  Try earlier versions of Xastir to see if it was
> something in Xastir that changed, or something in your OS.
>