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Re: X11 apps failing after upgrade


James Ferguson wrote:
My client machine is Solaris.  Everything worked fine before the update.
I'm running the installed startxwin.bat startup (with xterm REM'd out).

I can display xclock fine.  xterm appears up, but as soon as I hit a key
it crashes with:

  $ xterm
xterm:  warning, error event received:
X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for
operation)
  Major opcode of failed request:  136 (XKEYBOARD)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  16 (XkbSetNamedIndicator)
  Serial number of failed request:  117
  Current serial number in output stream:  130

This appears to be an issue with connecting to the Cygwin/X server from X clients from older X versions running on Solaris


See the thread at [1]

This thread references [2] (and it can also be found at [3]), which would suggest this is not a cygwin specific issue, but seems to be something that has changed in the X.Org 1.5.x server.

Those bugs reference some Solaris patches, which, as far as I can tell, upgrade X to a later version. Applying those is the only solution I know of at this time.

I did some searching, but I can't find a X server patch for this issue. If you find a patch that someone else has written, please let me know!

This is on my list of issues to investigate, but it is not straightforward for me to duplicate as I don't have a Solaris server to hand.

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00141.html
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/292973
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458373

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