xfdesktop (4.2 beta) aborts/crashes on startup

[Brian J. Tarricone]

vijay,

could you point out to me the filenames and line numbers where the 
assert statements appear in the latest version of libart_lgpl?  i'd like 
to report this as a bug to the devs.

thanks,
brian

Vijay Durairaj wrote:

>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
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>On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 06:58:45 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
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>
>>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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