xfe (fox) segmentation fault

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 25, 2008, at 11:58, Jonathan Stickel wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Dec 24, 2008, at 10:54, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>>> I would like to try the xfe file manager.  It installs fine  
>>> (Tiger 10.4.11), but then seg faults when I try to run it:
>>>
>>> $ xfe
>>> Segmentation fault
>>>
>>> The problem seems to be with the fox library on which it is  
>>> built; if I run a binary that is part of the fox build, I also  
>>> get segmentation faults.  For example:
>>>
>>> $ port contents fox | grep bin
>>>   /opt/local/bin/adie
>>> ...
>>>
>>> $ /opt/local/bin/adie
>>> Segmentation fault
>>>
>>> Does anyone else see this?  Should I file a bug report ticket?
>> I don't get a segmentation fault on Tiger... When X11 is not  
>> running I get:
>> $ adie
>> Adie::openDisplay: unable to open display :0.0
>> And when X11 is running I get:
>> $ adie
>> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Cannot connect to non-local  
>> host ????????????
>> XIO:  fatal IO error 22 (Unknown error: 0) on X server ":0.0"
>>       after 7 requests (6 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
>> Which is this ticket:
>> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/17558
>
> I am well aware of that bug.  It can be at least partially fixed  
> for gtk2 by removing the libXfixes dependency from the portfile, as  
> I report in the ticket.
>
> Perhaps this bug with the fox library is related... How can we  
> debug it?

I'm not sure... Since adie crashed, hopefully it wrote a crash log to  
~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter. Maybe its contents will clue us in...