Re: Ubuntu Edgy error

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 12:55, fwsmail35@aol.com wrote:
>  I have recently installed the new version of Ubuntu. I can compile Amaya,
> but when I execute it, the program crashes with the following message :
>
>  12:46:42: Deleted stale lock file '/home/fred/.amaya-fred'.
>  The program 'amaya' received an X Window System error.
>  This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>  The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
>  (Details: serial 533 error_code 8 request_code 144 minor_code 3)
>  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>  that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>  To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>  option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>  backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Someone sent me the current stack when the bug occurs.
This bug seems due to an important synch change in the new Xorg version.

>  The bug seems to have already been met by other people and is reported at
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.searchtext=amaya
>
>  I think I came from the new version of Mesa library because I had to
> reinstall the .deb before compiling.
>
>  Fred

Perhaps the bug occurs only because some libraries are compiled with a old 
Xorg version. I don't have access to this Ubuntu platform yet to investigate 
more.
-- 
     Irène.
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Received on Monday, 5 February 2007 08:46:29 UTC