Is this problem fixed in 3.1.2F

[Eric Chang]

Eric Chang (er...@arco.com) wrote:
: Hi. I finally found out why XFree86 S3 server crashes
: my Linux 1.2.13 w/XFree86 3.1.2. It hangs the whole
: machine, and a power shutdown and lengthy fsck run are
: required to get going again. The crash is caused by a
: faulty call to XParseColor() with the color "red". The
: workaround is to make sure that XParseColor() never
: sees the color red. How can I really fix this? I
: think that it is a bug in XFree86 and not gnuplot.
:
: Thanks, Eric

In article <50c4qe$q...@clarknet.clark.net> Killjoy, ng...@clark.net
writes:
>Have you checked /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt ?

Hi Killjoy. At the time that I posted the workaround, I had not
checked rgb.txt. I thought it was pretty standard for some color
like "red". I just checked it, and it is OK (It looks very much
like the one on my Sun, which works perfectly). red is listed as
255 0 0. Even if red is not listed, the X server *should* fail
gracefully.

There appears to be a lot of traffic on the subject of the F
beta release of XFree 3.1.2. Does anybody think that this will
help? (using Diamond Stealth 24, NEC 3FGx monitor, XFree86
3.1.2, Linux 1.2.13) Does the E release help?

Thanks, Eric