Re: Bug#357439: amaya does not start--The program 'amaya' received an X Window System error.
On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 21:12 +0100, Regis Boudin wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:28 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> >
> > > -no crash with the nvidia proprietary driver, display is happy.
> > >
> > > When I tried using gdb to get a backtrace(attached), all I got was a
> > > long list of calls involving wxWidgets, GTK, but not Mesa.
> >
> > X is asynchronous, so the client receives the error long after it sent
> > out the request causing it. When this happens, GTK should tell you how
> > to make it use a synchronous X connection.
>
> I know. The previously attached backtrace was obtained with libgl1-mesa-swx11,
> running amaya with the --sync parameter, so there might be a problem there
> too. Doing the same with libgl1-mesa-glx and DRI disabled, I get the
> attached one. Could wxWidgets be doing something bad ?
Possibly; in particular in the previous backtrace, it does look like
either wx or GTK is the culprit. In this case, it looks like it could be
wx and/or libGL and/or the X server.
> > > CCing the XSF in case someone has an idea,
> >
> > A Mesa list might have been even better? :)
>
> Sorry, I didn't find the debian-mesa list :)
There's pkg-mesa-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org, but it used to only
allow subscribers to post; not sure if that's still the case. At the
moment, the relevant people are probably reading debian-x.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer
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