[Debichem-devel] Bug#512826: bkchem: crash of X window after repeated use of object conf

[Kenward Vaughan]

On 01/25/2009 09:13:11 AM, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 24.01.2009, 00:15 -0800 schrieb Kenward Vaughan:
> 
> > Steps to create complete crash of X-window:
> > 
> > 1.  Create a naphthalene by annealing two benzene rings together. 
> Go
> > horizontally to do this.  After this, part of the 2nd ring will be
> left
> > selected (C1 through C4 in its numbering system).
> > 
> > 2.  Object > Configuration, and choose Show atom names.
> > 
> > 3.  Select the other ring's far bond (C6 and C7).
> > 
> > 4.  Object > Configuration causes complete crash of X window with 
> no
> error
> > reported...  :(
> > 
> > Working on recording similar steps which cause a freeze in bkchem's
> > operation, forcing a kill.
> 
> Hm. I tried to reproduce it, but it did not crash for me (or I did
> something wrong following your description). Which graphics driver 
> are
> you using? Can you try with the VESA driver? I'm not sure, but it
> sounds
> like a problem with the graphics driver. Or can someone else 
> reproduce
> it?
> 

I'm using the nvidia driver.  Switched to the nv driver and things 
aren't the same, but I still occasionally got the same sort of crash (I 
played randomly with various atom selections, then configuring the 
selection).  It seemed harder to force a crash with the nv driver, but 
it's really too little data to say for sure.

For both drivers I find times when the python code somehow freezes up 
as well (mentioned at the end of my post above) which I haven't 
isolated yet.

Kenward