[arch-general] urxvtd frequently crashes

[DR]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Robbie Smith <zoqaeski at gmail.com> wrote:

> On my new install I've been using urxvtd to run terminals, and I'm finding
> that it frequently crashes. Either I'll switch to a window and it won't
> redraw or accept input, or I'll close a window and all of them will close.
> I was using the script in the urxvtc man page to spawn a daemon as
> required, and that either results in memory usage skyrocketing, or heaps of
> processes spawned waiting to connect to the daemon.
>
I've witness exactly same behavior before. The two problems you encounter
are likely to have the same root cause: memory corruption in urxvt.

I don't know what exactly went wrong, but when I stop using urxvt's perl
plugins, the problem seems to disappear (at least I've seen it for a long
enough time).

Maybe our problems are not the same, so don't expect this to work for you.


> What am I doing wrong? Searching the interweb has thus far found nothing
> except that if urxvtd crashes it brings down all the clients (which I've
> become quite aware of). AFAIK there's no glitches in my ~/.Xresources[1]
>
> I usually have a tmux session or two running, so I don't lose much, but
> it's still annoying when I lose an active download with aria2 or something
> like that.
>
> Robbie
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/**3985284 <https://gist.github.com/3985284>
>