Re: Bad Protocol request 77

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> My Emacs is crashing in Gnus when displaying some articles.
>> I haven't been able to get a reliable recipe yet, but basically I get
>> a backtrace as shown in the appended session.
>> The first backtrace is with x-synchronize turned off, the second is  with
>> x-synchronize turned on.
>> 
>> Could give me some hint what I should be looking at?
>> In the mean time, I'll try to get a reliably reproducible recipe.
>> 
>> 
>> Stefan
>> 
>> 
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  x_error_quitter (display=0xbfffce30, error=0xbfffcd00) at
>> xterm.c:7788
>> #1  0x0810175c in x_error_handler (display=0x8714568,  error=0xbfffcd00)
>> at xterm.c:7753
>> #2  0xb7ddf624 in _XError () from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6

> Can you print out the error string (error parameter to  x_error_handler)?
> 77 is just XDrawImageString16 which is in the  second backtrace as expected.
> But it can generate different errors.   I think it is a BadMatch, which
> usually indicates bad input to  XDrawImageString16.  You should be able to
> walk up to the stack frame  that calls XDrawImageString16 and examine
> the input.

It's indeed a BadMatch, but I don't know what part of the input would be
interesting to examine or what legitimate values should look like,


        Stefan