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Article #221Re: X and/or powerflip and/or Elan (and/or user?) brain damage
From: Michael Toy
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:03
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:03
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In article <34956@adm.brl.mil> zsd@axe.drea.dnd.ca (Jim Diamond) writes:
>... /usr/adm/SYSLOG I find
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: Resource id in failed request: 0x34
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: Serial number of failed request: 160
>Jan 11 16:52:55 axe Xsession: zsd: Current serial number in output stream: 160
>
>Can anyone shed some light on why this is happening? In previous
>cases, logging out and in again fixes (temporarily) this problem.
>But what is causing this problem? Should I ask for a new backplane?
>Maybe a new power supply? ("Collect the whole set.")
This is a bug in the X server. When it gets in this mode, the only
solution is to kill the X server and the new one will come up
in the non-buggy state. I am not responsible for the X server,
so I am not sure about this, but I believe this is not fixed in 4.anything.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!sgigate!sgi!fido!mycool.asd.sgi.com!mtoy From: mtoy@mycool.asd.sgi.com (Michael Toy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.misc Subject: Re: X and/or powerflip and/or Elan (and/or user?) brain damage Summary: known bug, not fixed until 5.X Message-ID: <1it5dtINNpaq@fido.asd.sgi.com> Date: 12 Jan 93 01:03:57 GMT References: <34956@adm.brl.mil> Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 17 NNTP-Posting-Host: mycool.asd.sgi.com