For what it's worth, I get this all the time with certain gtk-applications (coot is not one of them) on RHEL5. Rebuilding the application to use some other toolkit than gtk has worked whenever that option has been available.
// Johan On Dec 10, 2013, at 07:18 , Tim Gruene <t...@shelx.uni-ac.gwdg.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dear Fred, > > without further info my guess is that you try to run coot through > X11-forwarding of an ssh-connection which sometimes causes this error > message, or you need to recompile your graphics driver, e.g. because > your kernel was updated and the driver was not. > > Best, > Tim > > On 12/10/2013 03:53 PM, vellieux wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering if anyone had seen this behaviour with Coot. >> >> Whatever version I was using, or the latest that comes with ccp4 >> now gives me the following error message. Rather cryptic message >> for me. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Fred. >> >> The program 'coot-real' received an X Window System error. This >> probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow >> (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 323 error_code 3 >> request_code 153 minor_code 4) (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.) Gtk-Message: Failed to load module >> "pk-gtk-module" Gtk-Message: Failed to load module >> "canberra-gtk-module" coot-exe: >> "/home/prog/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/coot-real" coot-version: >> /home/prog/ccp4-6.4.0/bin/coot-real platform: /bin/uname core: #f >> No core file found. No debugging This is not helpful. Please turn >> on core dumps before sending a crash report >> > > - -- > - -- > Dr Tim Gruene > Institut fuer anorganische Chemie > Tammannstr. 4 > D-37077 Goettingen > > GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iD8DBQFSpzDQUxlJ7aRr7hoRAgO/AJ9d2O1prlFBUEIOyFReQo3X2hscYQCeOTZ3 > 6QeY2C8XGNlNuwHXWgVA0lY= > =Tqjo > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Postdoctoral Fellow @ Physical Biosciences Division _______________________________________________________________ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * 1 Cyclotron Rd. Mail Stop 64R0121 * Berkeley, CA 94720-8118 * +1 (510) 495-8055
