
Some people report xawtv segfaults with glibc 2.1
(got success reports too).  I don't know what the
reason for this problem is.  From the stack traces
I've seen so far, I suspect it is a glibc bug or
some incompatibility between glibc and the X11 libs.

I've got one report that upgrading the X11 libs from
3.3.2 to 3.3.3 fixed the problem.

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libXaw3d is buggy.  It bombs when xawtv wants to use a visual with a
different color depth than the default visual.  Looks like this:

bogomips kraxel ~# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.08, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.13)
visual: id=0x22 class=3 (PseudoColor), depth=8
visual: id=0x23 class=1 (GrayScale), depth=8
visual: id=0x24 class=4 (TrueColor), depth=24
switching visual (0x24)
[ ... more messages ... ]
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  91 (X_QueryColors)
  Value in failed request:  0xd3d3d3
  Serial number of failed request:  63
  Current serial number in output stream:  63

workaround:  ./configure --disable-xaw3d


HTH,

  Gerd

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Gerd Knorr <kraxel@goldbach.in-berlin.de>
