[Xcb] Problem with xcb-test

[Jamey Sharp]

I can at least tell you that only the first two messages are
interesting, and the rest are because the first failed. It appears to
hang because it's looping, waiting for events: it's supposed to do that.
The only way to end xcb-test under any circumstances is to kill it with
a signal like ctrl-c.

These things would help: your processor type and OS variant
(distribution and version, etc.); the output of the xdpyinfo shipped
with your XFree86 bits; the value of your DISPLAY environment variable;
and whether rendertest successfully puts a window on the screen.

The second error message below seems odd. That says that a GetGeometry
request on the root window failed. xdpyinfo will help diagnose that, a
little: maybe XCB and Xlib will disagree about which window is the root
window, giving clues to a bug in XCB. (Unfortunately the XCB version of
xdpyinfo doesn't output the root window ID, but that info is in the
output you provided below.) I guess the BadWindow error would be due to
the wrong root window being provided.

It's also quite possible that xcb-test itself is buggy. (I know of one
bug that you don't seem to have run into; you'd see a BadMatch on seqnum
3 if you hit that.) I have a lot more faith in the XCB library than in
any of the demos, mostly because the demos rely on the semantics of X,
while the library only has to get the protocol right. I'm not very good
at understanding X semantics yet... The rendertest application provides
a good datapoint because it was contributed by Andy Howe and so doesn't
have exactly the same semantic confusions as my code.

Thanks for trying this code out.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:06:11AM -0700, Bart Massey wrote:
> I doubt it has to do with your server version.  Sounds more
> like an outright XCB bug to me.  Platform, environment, etc?
> Perhaps Jamey will have some insight...
> 
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406141130050.23635-100000 at melkinpaasi.cs.Helsinki.FI> you wrote:
> > I'm trying to run xcb-test but I can't seem to get over the following
> > error:
> >  
> > $ /usr/local/bin/xcb-test
> > Error BadWindow on seqnum 3 (CreateWindow).
> > Failed to get geometry for window 0x7d4029a4.
> > Failed to get geometry for window 0x02400000.
> > Error BadWindow on seqnum 6 (ChangeProperty).
> > Error BadWindow on seqnum 7 (ChangeProperty).
> > Error BadWindow on seqnum 8 (MapWindow).
> > Error BadDrawable on seqnum 10 (GetGeometry).
> > Error BadDrawable on seqnum 11 (GetGeometry).
> > Failed to query tree for window 0x02400000.
> > Error BadWindow on seqnum 12 (QueryTree).
> > Failed to get attributes for window 0x02400000.
> > Error BadWindow on seqnum 9 (GetWindowAttributes).
> >  
> > After that it just hangs until I abort it.
> >  
> > I'm currently using XFree 4.3.0, would it help if I installed XOrg
> > instead?
> > -- 
> > Anni Kotilainen
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Jamey Sharp <jamey at minilop.net> - http://minilop.net/
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