Xorg reports: BadLength (poly request too large ...
Erich Dollansky
oceanare at pacific.net.sg
Thu Aug 30 06:29:09 PDT 2007
Hi,
this error is real, real strange.
I just got it again. Restarting X did not solve the problem.
After seeing no solution, I rebooted the machine and it works now.
What can be the reason for this strange behaviour?
Erich
Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed FreeBSD over the weekend and updated Xorg to 7.2.
>
> It was all working fine until this morning. I get now all the while
> error messages like this especially if I run Firefox. The error message
> caught comes from Thunderbird.
>
> I did not see this error while Firefox was not running.
>
> Erich
>
> PS
>
> The error message:
>
> Script started on Thu Aug 30 14:18:40 2007
> You have mail.
> /home/erich > thunderbird &
> [1] 42052
> /home/erich > The program 'thunderbird-bin' received an X Window System
> error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length
> erro'.
> (Details: serial 186251 error_code 16 request_code 18 minor_code 0)
> (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.)
> exit
> [1] Exit 1 thunderbird
> exit
>
> Script done on Thu Aug 30 15:03:39 2007
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