mwm crash

[Michael BUTOW]

I sometimes experience a crash of the Motif window manager (mwm) when performing a specific action in our application's GUI.

The system is an AlphaServer DS15 with Tru64 5.1B, Patch Kit #3 and ATI RADEON 7500 Graphics Support V1.2 driver installed.

The problem is indeterministic and occurs extremely seldom, but it is very critical to our software.
I have found no core files or system logs which give any clue about the cause of the crash.

Can anyone help?

Best regards,
Michael

[Ralf Puchner]

without a core it is very difficulty to analyze the problem. Any messages?

MWM can also crash if there are no resources left (memory, handles) because the all resources are allocated by the window manager and not the program itself. If a resourcelimit is the root cause the program may waste resources and must be corrected.

[Michael BUTOW]

Unfortunately, I can see no relevant messages in any logs.

It might well be a resource problem in the application - thanks for the hint.