[cairo] 1.12.2 -> 1.12.4 upgrade breakage

[Thomas Klausner]

Hi!

Is this the wrong list or the wrong way to report this, or has just
nobody found time to look at this yet?

Thanks,
 Thomas

On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 12:22:55AM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've tried updating the cairo package in pkgsrc from 1.12.2 to 1.12.4,
> but had to revert it, since this broke on at least OS X Lion (tested
> by tron, cc'd) and NetBSD-6.99.12/amd64 (tested by myself).
> 
> The failure mode of the release tarball was (on OS X, for xchat):
> # xchat
> The program 'xchat' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)'.
>   (Details: serial 5738 error_code 10 request_code 133 minor_code 1)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
> 
> Adding this patch
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/cairo/commit/?id=b1532f465e05d566f6d160c5ca916a5a12614067
> fixed some occurrences of the problem for xchat, but not all of them
> (wireshark works, gimp doesn't). Ask tron for details.
> 
> On NetBSD, the failure when starting firefox was:
> # firefox
> ###!!! ABORT: X_ShmAttach: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied); 11 requests ago: file /scratch/devel/xulrunner/work/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
> ###!!! ABORT: X_ShmAttach: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied); 11 requests ago: file /scratch/devel/xulrunner/work/mozilla-release/toolkit/xre/nsX11ErrorHandler.cpp, line 157
> zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) firefox
> 
> The xserver coming with NetBSD is based on xorg-server-1.10.3. pixman
> is at 0.26.2 (latest stable AFAIK), the x.org support libraries used
> by cairo are pretty much latest (ask for details).
> 
> Please let me know if there are further patches I can test or further
> details you need.
> 
> Thanks,
>  Thomas
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