Fix serious X server crash (xinerama + any QT app)

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 13 10:55:25 PST 2010


On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Linus Arver <linusarver at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello X developers,
>
> I am writing this message to point your attention to a serious bug that
> has been in X server since the 1.9 release, where starting _any_ QT app
> (and some tcl/tk ones like fontforge) would _immediately_ crash the
> entire X server, but only if Xinerama was enabled. I myself experienced
> this bug on my dual monitors. Fortunately, I have already posted a
> patch, but it seems an email/mailing list hiccup (my fault with Gmail)
> placed it in the wrong thread.
>
> Patch: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-October/014150.html
>
> Actual thread: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-October/014149.html
>
> Please merge this patch into the next release xserver release. It is
> only a 1-liner change that fixes a 1-liner typo.
>
> This patch has already been tested and used successfully by end-users at
> Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Gentoo, etc.
>
> Bug report: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30943
>
> Further discussions:
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=106125
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+bug/650539
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339135
>
> -Linus

That looks like a pretty obvious typo, so
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>


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