BadLength error when running xrandr

[Joel Feiner]

Embarrassed as I am to say it, it turns out that I somehow had an old 
version of randrproto installed (the new versions were getting installed 
to the wrong place, although it wasn't obvious because of the paths 
involved).  Once I got that straightened out, xrandr started working 
again.  Sorry to bother the list over such an inane problem.  Thanks, 
anyways, for the assistance.

On 06/16/2009 10:34 AM, Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 18:44 -0400, Joel Feiner wrote:
>> I have an all-git X setup on my machine, with the correct
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH and all that.  When I run xrandr, even without
>> arguments, I always get this error message:
>>
>> X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or
>> internal Xlib length error)
>>     Major opcode of failed request:  147 (RANDR)
>>     Minor opcode of failed request:  15 ()
>
> Minor number 15 is GetOutputProperty.  BadLength means the client
> screwed up at encoding the request.  Run xrandr under gdb, set a
> breakpoint on XRRGetOutputProperty, and see what the last GOP request is
> before you get this error.
>
> - ajax