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- 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
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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.
-