X/News core dumping (He

[Mike Wexler]

I have been having problem with Sun's X/News Server core dumping and I was
wondering if anyone else has had these problem and if anyone knows a
workaround. Sun has been contacted.

Now the technical details, the problem occurs on Sun SPARCstation 1s with
CG3 cards. It doesn't happen on a SPARCstation 1 with a CG6 (Lego) card in
it. It happens with OpenWindows 2.0 on Sun OS 4.1.1.

There are two reproducible cases, one of occurs when running a simple
Motif 1.1 application (included below). The other involes using xterm and
xclipboard from the MIT X11R4 release.

To reproduce the second problem, bring up an xterm and display some text.
Bring up xclipboard (don't resize or move it, use the Mit app-defaults).
Select several lines of text in the xterm by pushing mouse button 1 down
at the beginning of a line and dragging the mouse straight down to the
beginning of another line that is several lines down. Then paste the
selection into the xclipboard with the middle button. This problem will
only happen if the above sequence is followed very precisely.

Here is the small Motif program:
#--------------------------Cut Here--------------------------
#! /bin/sh
# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before the "#! /bin/sh" line,
# then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file."
#
# Wrapped by Mike Wexler (mikew) at neptune on Thu Mar 21 12:19:30 1991
#
# unpacks with default permissions
#
# Contents : Makefile init.c initX.c
#
if `test ! -s Makefile`
then
echo "x - Makefile"
sed 's/^X//' > Makefile << '@EOF'
XOBJS=init.o initX.o 
XCFLAGS=-g -I/usr/aws/h -D_NO_PROTO
XLIBS=/usr/aws/lib/sun4/libXm.a /usr/aws/lib/sun4/libXt.a /usr/share/openwin/lib/libX11.a
XnewsCrash: $(OBJS)
X	cc -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
X	
@EOF
else
  echo "shar: Will not over write Makefile"
fi
if `test ! -s init.c`
then
echo "x - init.c"
sed 's/^X//' > init.c << '@EOF'
X#ifndef lint
Xstatic char	rcsid[] = "@(#)$Header: init.c,v 1.13 91/03/04 15:49:22 mikew Locked $";
X#endif
X
X/*
X * Initialization for the folderTest program.
X *
X * Copyright (c) 1990 FXD/Telerate, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
X *
X */
X
X#include <sys/param.h>
X
X#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
X
X
X
X/*
X * Initialize the panels and data structures used by each of the
X * panels in the system administration function.
X */
X
X/* ARGSUSED */
Xmain(argc, argv)
X    int		argc;
X    char	*argv[];
X{
X    static char	func[] = "udInitialize";
X    Widget	topLevelWidget;
X
X    topLevelWidget = XtInitialize("newsCrash", "NewsCrash", NULL, 0, 
X				  &argc, argv, NULL, 0);
X    if (topLevelWidget == NULL) {
X	exit (-1);
X    }
X    initX(topLevelWidget);
X    XtMainLoop();
X    exit (0);
X}
X
@EOF
else
  echo "shar: Will not over write init.c"
fi
if `test ! -s initX.c`
then
echo "x - initX.c"
sed 's/^X//' > initX.c << '@EOF'
X/*
X *  $Description: Initialization routines for panels & keyword lib initialize$
X *
X *  $CopyLeft:Copyright (c) 1990 FXD/Telerate, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.$
X */
X
X#ifndef lint
X        static char rcsid[] = "$Header: initX.c,v 1.11 91/03/04 15:49:23 mikew Locked $";
X#endif not lint
X
X
X#include <X11/Intrinsic.h>
X#include <X11/StringDefs.h>
X#include <X11/keysymdef.h>
X#include <Xm/Xm.h>
X#include <Xm/PushB.h>
X#include <Xm/RowColumn.h>
X
X#include "stdTypes.h"
X
XWidget	folderNameWidget;
X
X/*ARGSUSED*/
Xstatic
Xvoid
XCrashCB(clientData, id)
X    XtPointer	clientData;
X    XtIntervalId	id;
X{
X    static char		func[] = "CrashCB";
X    char		*name;
X    int			itemNum;
X    Widget		w1;
X    Widget		menuPane;
X
X    name = "Worksheets";
X    XtVaGetValues(folderNameWidget,
X		  XmNsubMenuId, &menuPane,
X		  NULL);
X    w1 = XtVaCreateManagedWidget
X	(name, xmPushButtonWidgetClass, menuPane,
X	 XtVaTypedArg, XmNlabelString, XmRString, name, strlen(name),
X	 NULL);
X    XtManageChild(w1);
X    
X    XtVaSetValues(folderNameWidget,
X		  XmNmenuHistory, w1,
X		  NULL);
X    return;
X}
X/*
X * Description:	Create my widgets.
X *
X */
X
XASStatus
XinitX(topLevel)
XWidget	topLevel;
X{
X    Arg			args[10];
X    int			n;
X    Widget		form;
X    Widget		w;
X    XmString		xmString;
X
X    n = 0;
X    XtSetArg(args[n], XmNallowShellResize, True); n++;
X    XtSetValues(topLevel, args, n);
X
X
X    xmString = XmStringCreateSimple("");
X    folderNameWidget =
X	XmVaCreateSimpleOptionMenu(topLevel, "folderName", xmString, 
X				   XK_VoidSymbol,
X				   0, NULL,
X				   NULL);
X    XtManageChild(folderNameWidget);
X    XmStringFree(xmString);
X
X    XtAddTimeOut(1000, CrashCB, NULL);
X
X    XtRealizeWidget(topLevel);
X    return(0);
X}
X
@EOF
else
  echo "shar: Will not over write initX.c"
fi
# to concatenate archives, remove anything after this line
exit 0

Mike Wexler (mikew at fx.com)