Archive-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:59:28 +0200 From: odd.gripenstam@omgroup.com Reply-To: emacs-testers@lists.vms.gnu.org To: emacs-testers@lists.vms.gnu.ai.mit.edu Message-ID: <41256694.0036A5A0.00@omgroup.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 10:58:55 +0100 Subject: Emacs crash MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Once in a while I get this message when Emacs crashes, usually while I press M-w to copy the selection: X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) on protocol request 114 %SYSTEM-?-BADIMGHDR, bad image header Accounting says: Final status code: 10000046 I use Reflection X 6.0. My emacs was built in March 1997 with the complete distribution that was available at that time. I have not applied any patches since that (I know I should...) Has anyone else experienced this? /Odd ================================================================================ Archive-Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:22:54 +0200 Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 11:22:50 +0200 Message-ID: <8632-Mon05Oct1998112250+0200-levitte@lp.se> From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker Reply-To: emacs-testers@lists.vms.gnu.org To: emacs-testers@lists.vms.gnu.org In-Reply-To: <41256694.0036A5A0.00@omgroup.com> (odd.gripenstam@omgroup.com) Subject: Re: Emacs crash MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Once in a while I get this message when Emacs crashes, usually while I press M-w to copy the selection: X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) on protocol request 114 %SYSTEM-?-BADIMGHDR, bad image header That's a known problem. It's caused by some fool-up in the X Windows protocol or libraries. If I understand everything correctly, the state of the X connection can be inconsistent after such an error, and therefore, a crash would be appropriate. It might also be because of sloppy coding by whoever made the X part of emacs. It is possible that I may find the place where this happens some day, but since it happens very seldom to me, I'm not very optimistic. It seems to happen more often to you, so I'd like to ask you if you could try to run an emacs in debug mode? It's very simply done, by using the debug target when rebuilding: $ MMS/IGN=W DEBUG Run tht vriant for a while, and try to find out where that error occurs, or at least, where the part that makes it exit is. Thank you. -- R Levitte, Levitte Programming; Spannv. 38, I; S-168 35 Bromma; SWEDEN Tel: +46-8-26 52 47; Cell: +46-708-20 09 64; Fax: +46-708-20 06 13 PGP key fingerprint = 35 3E 6C 9E 8C 97 85 24 BD 9F D1 9E 8F 75 23 6B http://richard.levitte.org/pubkey2.asc for my public key. levitte@lp.se "price, performance, quality. Choose any two you like"