Subject: bug#16676: 24.3.50; Repeated but random hang

From: "Jan D." <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 17:40:21 +0100

Hi.

8 feb 2014 kl. 11:56 skrev Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 02:23:50 -0800
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>>> Xlib obviously thinks otherwise, the error message in the backtrace is
>>> very clear.
>> 
>> Well, might not something have scribbled something somewhere to make X
>> believe the window is no longer viable?
> 
> I'm not an expert on this, so I don't know.  Jan, can you comment,
> please?

The io error handler is only called for fatal errors.  Any system call related to io in Xlib that fails
triggers a call to the error handler.  Xlib can not recover from this, so the connection is lost.
If something writes garbage into Xlibs data, anything can happen.

    Jan D.