Re: Gdk-ERROR BadValue

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 17:29:14 -0400 (EDT)
[email protected] (Thomas Schulz) wrote:

> 
> I have built amaya on an AIX 4.1.5 R2 system with gcc 3.3.2.  When I try
> to run it, I get the following error:
> 
> Gdk-ERROR **: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>   serial 735 error_code 2 request_code 51 minor_code 0
> 
> Note that the gtk test programs run ok (using gtk+ 1.2.10 and glib 1.2.10).
> The glib and gtk test programs did not run until I recompiled them without
> optimization.  I have now rebuilt everything without optimization, but
> I still get the above error.
> 
> I suppose that I sould get and build the GNU debugger and then try to debug
> this (the AIX debugger does not seem to work with programs built with gcc).
> But, before I do that, does anyone know how to interpret the above error
> message?

Hum, when GDK detects an error it exits the process and so it's very difficult
to understand what generated the crash.
Before installing gdb could you launch amaya with strace to see what happends.

     Irene.
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