Bug 314526 – X Window System error while selecting text in a complex document

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Bug 314526 - X Window System error while selecting text in a complex document


Summary:	X Window System error while selecting text in a complex document


Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Product:	evince
Classification:	Core
Component:	general
Version:	git master
Hardware:	Other Linux

Importance:	High critical
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Evince Maintainers
QA Contact:	Evince Maintainers

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Depends on:
Blocks:

Reported:	2005-08-26 02:18 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified:	2006-04-25 04:33 UTC

See Also:
GNOME target:	---
GNOME version:	2.13/2.14

Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2005-08-26 02:18:15 UTC

1) Load this PDF up: http://manic.desrt.ca/fcc
2) Have select-by-text mode enabled.
3) Click the mouse down somewhere in the middle of the pdf.
4) Drag it about for a while.

The program 'evince' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 21903 error_code 8 request_code 59 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.)

Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2005-08-26 02:20:56 UTC

Not the most useful trace ever .... (this is with gtk debugging symbols
installed, even)

desrt@moonpix:~$ gdb --args evince --sync
GNU gdb 6.3-debian
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/
lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) b  gdk_x_error
Function "gdk_x_error" not defined.
Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y

Breakpoint 1 (gdk_x_error) pending.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /opt/gnome/bin/evince --sync
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1221912896 (LWP 16691)]
Breakpoint 2 at 0xb7a38d72: file gdkmain-x11.c, line 599.
Pending breakpoint "gdk_x_error" resolved
[New Thread -1224115280 (LWP 16696)]

+ Trace 62623

Thread NaN (LWP 16691)

#0 gdk_x_error
at gdkmain-x11.c line 599
#1 bonobo_ui_gtk_module_info_get
from /usr/lib/libbonoboui-2.so.0
#2 _XError
from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#3 _XReply
from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#4 XSync
from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#5 XSync
from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#6 XSetClipRectangles
from /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
#7 _gdk_x11_gc_flush
at gdkgc-x11.c line 200
#8 gdk_x11_draw_drawable
at gdkdrawable-x11.c line 678
#9 IA__gdk_draw_drawable
at gdkdraw.c line 680
#10 IA__gdk_window_end_paint
at gdkwindow.c line 1046
#11 IA__gtk_main_do_event
at gtkmain.c line 1356
#12 gdk_window_process_updates_internal
at gdkwindow.c line 2215
#13 IA__gdk_window_process_all_updates
at gdkwindow.c line 2268
#14 gdk_window_update_idle
at gdkwindow.c line 2136
#15 g_child_watch_add
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#16 g_main_context_dispatch
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#17 g_main_context_check
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#18 g_main_loop_run
from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
#19 IA__gtk_main
at gtkmain.c line 976
#20 main
at main.c line 245

Comment 2 Marco Pesenti Gritti 2005-08-31 17:00:14 UTC

Reproducable with both cairo and splash.

Comment 3 Christian Persch 2005-11-21 18:29:02 UTC

Still reproducible with today (2005-11-21)'s evince + poppler HEAD.

Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2006-01-28 14:19:35 UTC

still happening

Comment 5 Sitsofe Wheeler 2006-03-02 20:07:57 UTC

Could this be related to bug #316650 ?

Comment 6 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2006-03-06 21:20:13 UTC

I cannot get this to happen anymore.

evince 0.5.1-0ubuntu1 in dapper with libpoppler0c2 0.5.0-0ubuntu5

Might be interesting to note that I've switched from opensource to fglrx drivers recently.

Comment 7 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2006-04-25 04:33:13 UTC

Also no longer get this with DRI drivers (r300).

Closing.

(dapper)

libpoppler1:
  Installed: 0.5.1-0ubuntu6
evince:
  Installed: 0.5.2-0ubuntu1