Re: X Window System error

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On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 4:29 AM, Peter Lesterhuis
<peterlesterhuis@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> On one of my machines I did an upgrade from f8 to f9.
> After rebooting and logging in the new desktop background appears but
> without the usual icons (user's home, Trash, computer, etc).
> When I try to start an application nothing happens. When I start firefox
> from the command line I get this error:
>
> "$firefox
> The program 'firefox' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadName (named
> color or font does not exist)'.
> (Details: serial 862 error_code 15 request_code 45 minor_code 0)
> (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously; that
> is, you will receive an error a while after causing it.
> To debug your program, run in 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.)"
>
> When I try to start other applications I get similar errors.
> The X-server is running. Dmesg or /var/log/messages don't give me any clues.
> Can anyone help me with this?

An alternate solution to this is to turn off xfs in your services. It
seems that xfs running before X starts causes this error which affects
a lot of applications. xfs is not needed in a lot of situations so
things should run fine without it.

The issue is being tracked in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=430416

/Mike

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