xfdesktop (4.2 beta) aborts/crashes on startup

[Vijay Durairaj]

Thanks for your help. I commented out the particular assertions in the
libart_lgpl, re-compiled libart and got xfdesktop working.

Now everything is working fine.

I am wondering how this bug is going to affect final XFCE 4.2. Even
though it is libart bug, they haven't released a newer version fixing
this issue. Hence, it might affect a bunch of users when xfce4.2 final
is released. Atleast, this information should be added  in FAQ or some
other place, so that this is visible.

Thanks for your help,
Vijay







On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:58:45 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> that's a bug in libart_lgpl.  not xfce-related.
> 
> people, please report bugs to http://bugs.xfce.org/ - this makes it much
> easier for us to track and fix.
> 
>         -brian
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/05/04 21:56, Vijay Durairaj wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed the XFCE 4.2 beta on my Mandrake linux (9.2) machine.
> >
> > Everything is fine except xfdesktop. It crashes on startup. The error
> > message as follows:
> >
> > $ xfdesktop
> > xfdesktop: art_render_gradient.c:338: art_render_gradient_linear_render_8: Asser
> > tion `offset_fraction <= stops[ix].offset' failed.
> > Aborted
> >
> > GDB output of xfdesktop:
> > xfdesktop: art_render_gradient.c:338: art_render_gradient_linear_render_8: Asser
> > tion `offset_fraction <= stops[ix].offset' failed.
> > (no debugging symbols found)...
> > Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
> > 0x405f5d71 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x405f5d71 in kill () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > #1  0x40a3f871 in pthread_kill () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
> > #2  0x40a3fb8b in raise () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0
> > #3  0x405f5b04 in raise () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > #4  0x405f71e0 in abort () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > #5  0x405ef0ad in __assert_fail () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> > #6  0x409cbb58 in art_render_image_solid () from /usr//lib/libart_lgpl_2.so.2
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vijay
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