make-frame-on-display returns BadAtom error

make-frame-on-display returns BadAtom error

[Andrew Maguire]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, X toolkit)
 of 2002-07-11 on albany
configured using `configure  --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB.ISO8859-15
  value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.ISO8859-15
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
  value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.ISO8859-15
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.ISO8859-15
  value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.ISO8859-15
  value of $LANG: en_GB.ISO8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

(make-frame-on-display "phenakite:0.0")
returns 
x-create-frame-with-faces: X protocol error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) on protocol request 18 [3 times]

make-frame-on-display works successfully on our previous Emacs versions: 20.7, 20.3 and 19.29.

Thanks
Andrew

Recent input:
t e SPC d e l a y SPC d u e SPC t o SPC s w m f s SPC 
l o c k i n g C-c C-c C-x k <return> C-x k <return> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<files> <make-frame-on-display> p h e n a k i t e : 
0 . 0 <return> <f12> <return> <help-echo> <f12> <return> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

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x-create-frame-with-faces: X protocol error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) on protocol request 18 [3 times]
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RE: make-frame-on-display returns BadAtom error

[andrew.maguire]

I have narrowed this down to only being a problem when the executable is
run from a Solaris 8 box. The executable was build on Solaris 2.6. I also
do not have a problem with make-frame-on-display when I am running the
eecutable from
a Solaris 7 machine. So it seems to be an OS issue rather than a GNU Emacs
bug.
However, if have any additional information on the likely cause or perhaps
an
OS patch for Solaris 8 then please let me know.

Thanks
Andrew Maguire

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Maguire [mailto:Andrew.Maguire@Smallworld.co.uk]
> Sent: 31 July 2002 18:03
> To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Maguire, Andrew (PS, GENS)
> Subject: make-frame-on-display returns BadAtom error
> 
> 
> This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,
> not to your local site managers!
> Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have
> translators to read other languages for them.
> 
> Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 
> mailing list,
> and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.
> 
> In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6, X toolkit)
>  of 2002-07-11 on albany
> configured using `configure  --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib'
> Important settings:
>   value of $LC_ALL: nil
>   value of $LC_COLLATE: en_GB.ISO8859-15
>   value of $LC_CTYPE: en_GB.ISO8859-15
>   value of $LC_MESSAGES: C
>   value of $LC_MONETARY: en_GB.ISO8859-15
>   value of $LC_NUMERIC: en_GB.ISO8859-15
>   value of $LC_TIME: en_GB.ISO8859-15
>   value of $LANG: en_GB.ISO8859-15
>   locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9
>   default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil
> 
> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> and the precise symptoms of the bug:
> 
> (make-frame-on-display "phenakite:0.0")
> returns 
> x-create-frame-with-faces: X protocol error: BadAtom (invalid 
> Atom parameter) on protocol request 18 [3 times]
> 
> make-frame-on-display works successfully on our previous 
> Emacs versions: 20.7, 20.3 and 19.29.
> 
> Thanks
> Andrew
> 
> Recent input:
> t e SPC d e l a y SPC d u e SPC t o SPC s w m f s SPC 
> l o c k i n g C-c C-c C-x k <return> C-x k <return> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
> <files> <make-frame-on-display> p h e n a k i t e : 
> 0 . 0 <return> <f12> <return> <help-echo> <f12> <return> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
> <help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>
> 
> Recent messages:
> dired-read-dir-and-switches: Quit
> Mark set
> Wrote /swdev/users/andrewma/scripts.data.new_init
> Mark set
> Press C-c C-c when you are done editing.
> Enter a change comment.  Type C-c C-c when done
> Mark set
> Checking in /swdev/streams/scorpio/release/scripts/scripts.data...done
> x-create-frame-with-faces: X protocol error: BadAtom (invalid 
> Atom parameter) on protocol request 18 [3 times]
> Loading emacsbug...done
>