Bug#578869: g-s-d crashes when changing resolutions/adding monitors

Soeren Sonnenburg sonne at debian.org
Fri Apr 23 09:22:17 UTC 2010


Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 2.28.1-3
Severity: important

...with the following error:

The program 'gnome-settings-daemon' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 456231 error_code 8 request_code 152 minor_code 7)
  (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.)

Unfortunately this does not happen *always* and thus is hard to reproduce.
However afterwards gnome programs run in some default settings and starting
gnome-settings-daemon again takes down the whole X session such that only
logout/login can help.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32.9-sonne (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.28.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                     1.8.10-4   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.86-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1                2.8.0-2    generic font configuration library
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.1-3   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.0-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11         2.28.2-1   Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-common              2.30.0-1   The GNOME library - common files
ii  libgnomekbd4                  2.30.0-1   GNOME library to manage keyboard c
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10 0.10.28-1  GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0            0.10.28-1  Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.20.0-3   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-gtk2.1 0.4.5-1    sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxi6                        2:1.3-4    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxklavier16                 5.0-2      X Keyboard Extension high-level AP

gnome-settings-daemon recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
ii  fluxbox [x-window-manag 1.1.1-7          Highly configurable and low resour
ii  gnome-screensaver       2.28.3-1+b1      GNOME screen saver and locker
ii  kwin [x-window-manager] 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 the KDE window manager
ii  metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.30.1-1       lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  mutter [x-window-manage 2.29.0-2         lightweight GTK+ window manager
ii  twm [x-window-manager]  1:1.0.4-2        Tab window manager
ii  x11-xserver-utils       7.5+1            X server utilities

-- no debconf information





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