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sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

The program 'name here' received an X Window System error.

After the latest xorg update I keep on getting these errors when starting up programs - here's an example of xchm:

The program 'xchm' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 210 error_code 11 request_code 147 minor_code 5)
  (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.)

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: The program 'name here' received an X Window System error.

There have already been reports of BadAlloc errors.  Perhaps they apply to you too.
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9254
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=42541

wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: The program 'name here' received an X Window System error.

Those errors have been reported for Ubuntu and OpenSuse in combination with aMule, too. For Ubuntu, a recent Update of the xserver-xorg-core package solved the problem. I haven't done any research, but this is probably caused by a combination of wxGTK and a certain xserver version.

sven

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Registered: 2005-02-01

Posts: 311

Re: The program 'name here' received an X Window System error.

I should have checked flyspray at first. Thanks for letting me know that this is already getting attention.