XEVIE stuck in xcb_wait_for_reply()

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Mon Feb 18 03:54:01 PST 2008


Hi,

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:12:20PM +0100, Rémi Cardona wrote:
> I'm trying to use XEVIE for a few tests and somehow, calls to XevieStart 
> or XevieSelectInput on some Xorg servers just never return.

Good luck.  XEVIE hasn't been developed for absolutely ages, and is
almost certainly broken.

> Am I hitting a bug somewhere? How can I dig deeper to see what's holding 
> the calls into xcb_wait_for_reply() ?
> 
> FWIW, gdb backtrace of my compositor (identical with the other 2 test cases)
> 
> #4  0x00002ae3521cd615 in xcb_wait_for_reply (c=0x62d020, request=54, 
> e=0x7fff5e7025a8) at xcb_in.c:344
> #5  0x00002ae351d08af8 in _XReply (dpy=0x62c520, rep=0x7fff5e7025f0, 
> extra=0, discard=0) at xcb_io.c:364
> #6  0x00002ae3518a79fe in XevieSelectInput (dpy=0x62c520, event_mask=76) 
> at Xevie.c:205

That would be XevieSelectInput, then: looks like the reply just isn't
getting sent.

Cheers,
Daniel
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