Weird BadLength errors

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Thu May 12 15:35:17 PDT 2005


On Thursday 12 May 2005 17:37, Jan Oberländer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> first, I hope this is actually on-topic for this list; I'm not quite
> certain, so I hope that you can point me to the right place if not.

xorg at lists.freedesktop.org is more appropriate; I've cc:'d that list.

> This is an error that I have run into recently, and I can't quite tell
> whether this is a hardware or software problem, and if it's software it
> might not even be an X.org problem.
>
> The error I get is this:
>
>   X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or
> internal Xlib length error)
>     Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>     Serial number of failed request:  49
>     Current serial number in output stream:  52

This rings a bell:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455

Especially since you're on a Transmeta processor.  I'm inclined to blame their 
translation software...

- ajax
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