weston --xserver segfaults during xserver startup when no xcursors are found: #0 0xb5b35521 in xcb_cursor_images_load_cursor (wm=0x83b7030, images=0x0) at window-manager.c:182 #1 0xb5b355d6 in xcb_cursor_library_load_cursor (wm=0x83b7030, file=0xb5b3ea94 "top_side") at window-manager.c:207 #2 0xb5b371ab in weston_wm_create_cursors (wm=0x83b7030) at window-manager.c:988 #3 0xb5b381a3 in weston_wm_create (wxs=0x83b8bf0) at window-manager.c:1469 #4 0xb5b3a41a in bind_xserver (client=0x838a248, data=0x83b8bf0, version=1, id=11) at launcher.c:165 #5 0xb74c4318 in display_bind (client=0x838a248, resource=0x83ad9b0, name=12, interface=0x83ae71c "xserver", version=1, id=11) at wayland-server.c:923 #6 0xb74bb522 in ffi_call_SYSV () at ../../../libffi/src/x86/sysv.S:64 #7 0xb74bb2be in ffi_call (cif=0x83ae6a0, fn=0xb74c4272 <display_bind>, rvalue=0xbffb8b8c, avalue=0x83ae6b8) at ../../../libffi/src/x86/ffi.c:324 #8 0xb74c8aa5 in wl_closure_invoke (closure=0x83ae648, target=0x83ad9b0, func=0xb74c4272 <display_bind>, data=0x838a248) at connection.c:855 #9 0xb74c2fb1 in wl_client_connection_data (fd=25, mask=1, data=0x838a248) at wayland-server.c:284 #10 0xb74c671d in wl_event_source_fd_dispatch (source=0x84908f8, ep=0xbffb8c40) at event-loop.c:79 #11 0xb74c7065 in wl_event_loop_dispatch (loop=0x80654e0, timeout=-1) at event-loop.c:410 #12 0xb74c4896 in wl_display_run (display=0x80654b0) at wayland-server.c:1103 #13 0x08056679 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffb9044) at compositor.c:4131 This is caused by an undetected fail of XcursorLibraryLoadImages() in xcb_cursor_images_load_cursor(). The returned null-pointer is assigned to images, later it causes the segmentation violation in cb_cursor_images_load_cursor(). Immediate workaround: Make sure that a proper xcursor theme is installed as default: export XCURSOR_PATH=$PREFIX/share/icons ln -s path_to_cursor_theme $XCURSOR_PATH/default $PREFIX/bin/weston --xserver Todo: The build documentation really should be updated to document the xcursor dependency. XCURSOR_PATH should be documented in weston.1 In the code the pointer returned by XcursorLibraryLoadImages() must be checked before it is used, but I think the best idea would be to abort at weston startup if the required cursor images are not provided by the system. Adding proper xcursors would be even better. cu, Knut
This should be fixed now, can you verify?
But did you actually applied the patches: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2012-October/005696.html
(In reply to comment #1) > This should be fixed now, can you verify? It´s harder to hit as there are default cursors now, but in a broken installation it probably segfaults as XcursorLibraryLoadImages() will return NULL, and that currently still is used as a pointer. cu, Knut
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #1) > > This should be fixed now, can you verify? > > It´s harder to hit as there are default cursors now, but in a broken > installation it probably segfaults as XcursorLibraryLoadImages() will return > NULL, and that currently still is used as a pointer. Oh, this is actually not related to the default cursors. This is about loading regular X cursors for xwm which is just an X client. I've pushed Tiagos patches.
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