[Vm-dev] Fwd: [Pharo-dev] Pharo 7 Repeatable crash: XIO: fatal IO error 14 (Bad address) on X server ":0"

[Martin McClure]

On 02/25/2018 05:11 PM, Martin McClure wrote:
>
> I can reproduce the problem on the latest VM
> (pharo.cog.spur_linux32x86_201802232356.tar.gz).
>
> The readily-reproducible problem isn't caught by GDB, the VM just
> exits out from under GDB after printing
>
>   XIO:  fatal IO error 14 (Bad address) on X server ":0"
>
> But once I did get a segv instead of the usual error and exit. Stack
> is below. I don't know when I'll have time to build a debug VM, and
> don't know whether it would help given that the reproducible problem
> isn't caught by GDB.
>
> Any more hints on how to diagnose?
>
I built a debug VM, and as expected running under GDB produced no new
info, the process just prints the error and exits. 

Also as conjectured, I can not reproduce the problem on a 64-bit VM.

Regards,

-Martin