Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 16:27:52 -0700 From: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <x11@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help diagosing problem using xv(1) to display PNG images? Message-ID: <20160712232752.GD1261@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1vbwgeoOregVMR4wLE46frX4f3sit3igYrVwOr4dq=Z7A@mail.gmail.com> References: <20160712205539.GB1261@albert.catwhisker.org> <CAN6yY1vbwgeoOregVMR4wLE46frX4f3sit3igYrVwOr4dq=Z7A@mail.gmail.com>
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--gRZ38brEgCoUohoa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 03:47:15PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > ... > > I rebuild FreeBSD daily, and update installed ports daily; above > > was running: > > > > FreeBSD g1-252.catwhisker.org 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #418 > > r302600M/302639:1003505: Tue Jul 12 04:11:56 PDT 2016 > > root@g1-252.catwhisker.org:/common/S1/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY amd64 > > > > My ports are all built under stable/10. I was able to re-create the > > symptoms while running stable/11: I should have mentioned that my ports working copy is head @r418418. > ... > Wow! I have not though of xv for years! Probably last used it to process > some EPS filed back about 12 years ago. First used it on VMS back in about > 1990. I appreciated it so much that I sent John a check for a personal > license ($25?) and received a hard-copy manual and a nice looking license > certificate. Moved to ImageMagick about 4 or 5 years later, but continued > to use xv now and again for things I didn't feel like taking the time to > learn how to do in ImageMagick. The newest copyright I can find in the xv > source is 1994. :-} > First, it sounds like the issue is almost certainly in xv(1). Sounds like= a > memory leak and xv failing to react properly to a failing malloc. It does > not surprise me too much to see problems with memory. OK; thanks for the "second set of eyes," there. :-) > Have you reached out to John Bradley about this? Assuming it is personal > use, I doubt John will refuse to help if you don't. His web site is still > up and running. http://www.trilon.com/xv/ Then again, John may not rememb= er > much about it after over two decades. Hadn't, as I wasn't at all clear that xv was at fault -- it, after all, hadn't been changing. :-} > In the meantime, you might consider a switch to ImageMagick.... Turns out I had ImageMagik built & installed already... and using it, the images render Just Fine (as well). Thanks! I'll see what I can figure out -- probably at a lower priority, since I (now) have alternatives -- and then take appropriate action. Peace, david --=20 David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org Those who would murder in the name of God or prophet are blasphemous coward= s. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key. --gRZ38brEgCoUohoa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJXhXz4XxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXRDQ0I3Q0VGOTE3QTgwMUY0MzA2NEQ3N0Ix NTM5Q0M0MEEwNDlFRTE3AAoJEBU5zECgSe4X5LYIAK7aAilJnufnrQtN8YHu9560 AY0E/8RKHBCUeJgGXkuJzr/d4GAsORIFE/r4wtF5zp/KfloDFEKEjgFFZBloQT6H thr0Ski/M6XVeeFS11SMhU198YadyKGl4oBrCyihwMFmUtRF4iLCmY1OFJnUKyax l0+K8u8LO0aSwCGrrU49mF9UVP2TqleDugHLopvg/59k0Mejck0RIXAd7Gt1yKvL ufFaHEHD29hENFeqcmkDWp6Hc+AUTSo6dLYk0OXBEWhKPiWf0fjKIL20wdbZPdFM KWEr4k/VXGPX5Es9K84zQjoAeKIJQtqtgAp+/hdro6aprd6WKQMm7Tb+PW/1nso= =hOOS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gRZ38brEgCoUohoa--
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