Re: Gdk-ERROR BadValue

> From: Irene Vatton <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected] (Thomas Schulz)
> Cc: [email protected]
> 
> 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.

strace produced no output.  Note that I will be out of the office until
next week, so it will be awhile until I get back to this.  I am going to
mail out the changes that I had to make to get amaya to compile.  As most
of the changes would not be needed on later versions of AIX, feel free to
ignore most of them.
> 
>      Irene.
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Tom schulz
Applied Dynamics Intl.
[email protected]