Re: xine briefly opening then closing unexpectedly

Jago and I have been e-mailing back and forth, with Jago providing some
troubleshooting tips. To summarize:

First, after attempting to open gxine, I looked up .xsession-errors and
found the following:

The program 'gxine_bin' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
  (Details: serial 348 error_code 11 request_code 140 minor_code 19)
  (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.)
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  19
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x320002e
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
  Major opcode:  20
  Minor opcode:  0
  Resource id:  0x0

At which point, Jago asked me to look up swap and memory:

Swap:  2104472k total,   149008k used,  1955464k free,   647888k cached
Mem:    963216k total,   883204k used,    80012k free,    18092k buffers

To which Jago replied:

> So looking at the free amounts of swap space, I see it is largely unused.
> As far as RAM is concerned, I see that you have only 80 megabytes free.
> Multi-Media GUI-based applications gobble up lots of memory.
> I dont know how much memroy gxine needs. I would think that 80 meg of
> free ram is sufficient to let gxine run. So my suspicion is that gxine is making
> some request to the X server, and the X server has a bug and crashes.
> Debugging the X server is not an easy task. If I were you I would submit
> this bug to them via the web page  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
> You may need to create a free account first before you can submit the bug.

So, that's where I'm at now.

Thanks!

Sue

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