[Xcb] [Bug 27552] Lots of processes crash in XCreatePixmap() with _XAllocID: Assertion `ret != inval_id' failed

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27552

--- Comment #10 from Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> 2010-08-12 09:10:59 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> I have a small application that manages to reproduce that crash quite easily on
> ubuntu 10.04, but only when running under valgrind.

Cool, what's the application? Can I get the source somewhere? I see it's using
a toolkit (juce) that I hadn't heard of before though, so I'm not sure it's
close to a minimal test case yet...

> hellgrind outputs loads of stuff like:
> 
> ==2950== Possible data race during write of size 4 at 0x44bd06c by thread #1
> ==2950==    at 0x4084764: ??? (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
> ==2950==    by 0x4069352: XGetWindowProperty (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
> ...
> ==2950==  This conflicts with a previous read of size 4 by thread #6
> ==2950==    at 0x4082F0C: _XSetPrivSyncFunction (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
> ==2950==    by 0x408BBEF: _XAllocID (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
> ==2950==    by 0x40611A7: XCreatePixmap (in /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.3.0)
> ...
> 
> before the failed assertion.

I'm guessing that's the bug we fixed in git commit
a6d974dc59f2722b36e2df9d4f07aeee4f83ce43, which is included in libX11 1.3.4 and
later. What version of libX11 do you have?

> But that application itself
> behaves quite badly as it calls xlib from different threads using the same
> "Display*" struct for all threads, so I'm not sure if that might be of any use
> for tracking this issue. However I think it calls XInitThreads() on startup, so
> that should allow it to share the same display for all threads, isn't it ?

Yes, that's supposed to be safe. However, I introduced a variety of bugs for
multi-threaded apps some time ago, and only got most of them fixed in libX11
1.3.4. You should definitely re-test with that version or later if you don't
already have it.

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