[FLASH-USERS] xflash is crashing

[Vincenzo Antonuccio]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 01:22, Mike Zingale wrote:
> This is a likely bug in IDL that is interacting with a recently patched
> buffer overflow in the xorg server, 
> .................
> They recommend you roll back your libx11 or wait for IDL 6.4
>
> Mike

I can confirm your suspicion, Mike: here in Oxford they have just updated IDL 
to 6.4, and the system does not crash anymore. The reason why it started 
recently to crash is that they recently applied a security path to X11, and 
the latter was "colliding" with IDL.

Many thanks to everybody for the suggestions. I will check ViSiT, as soon as I 
can.


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