Re: 2.4.1 hangs frequently

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 08/28/2009 01:57:16 PM, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 08/25/2009 12:09:04 AM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> > Compiled from source. Gdb bt is attached, but I doubt if its of any
> > use! So, I'd like to help if I can. Any suggestions?
> 
> > [cut]
> > 3  0x0052bcc2 in xcb_wait_for_reply () from /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
> > [cut]
> 
> I see this is this xcb problem that other people observed as well.
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-August/003663.html
> http://osdir.com/ml/freedesktop.xcb/2007-08/msg00006.html
> http://www.virtualbox.de/ticket/2587
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/ekiga-devel-list/2007-December/
> msg00030.html
> 
> I have no idea how to approach the problem - I cannot reproduce it
> myself. 

It appears that there is a proposed (although unorthodox) patch for the 
problem that has not been geting the attention that you and I might 
think it deserves :-)

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xcb/2008-August/003700.html

One thing that we might try is to build libxcb from source after 
applying the proposed patch. However, looking at the balsa source, I 
see that there are no direct calls to xcb_*, so this might be more 
trouble than its worth. Any thoughts?