Nedit causes fatal error on X server

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Are these latest X-server binaries?

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hathaway Nigel-NHATHAW1 [ mailto:NHATHAW1@motorola.com ]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2001 9:40 AM
> To: 'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Nedit causes fatal error on X server
> 
> If you run nedit, the X server immediately exits with the following
> error
> message:
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Negative sized edge?
> 
> Presumably clients should not be able to crash the server.  (Nedit
> does not
> crash Exceed).
> 
> Nedit was running on SunOS 5.6 on a Sun Sparc.  I don't know the
> version of
> Xwin, but it was downloaded about a week ago.  The index.html contains
> the
> date 9 Feb 1999.  The created timestamp on Xwin.exe is 16 July 2000,
> modified on 17 June 2001.
> 
> I tried capturing the core dump, but although it said it was dumping
> to
> XWin.exe.stackdump, that file was never created.
> 
>  -- Nigel Hathaway