Bug#739466: When compiled with GTK, Emacs cannot recover from X disconnects

[Simon McVittie]

retitle 739466 emacs aborts: X protocol error on protocol request 139
tags 739466 + moreinfo
thanks

On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 at 07:31:17 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> X protocol error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter) on protocol request 139

This might have been caused by changes made for GNOME #630217, which were
reverted in 3.11.7 (e.g. GNOME #724067 has a similar backtrace/symptoms and
is marked fixed). Please try with Gtk 3.12, which is now in unstable.

> When compiled with GTK, Emacs cannot recover from X disconnects.

I think that message might be misleading here: an X disconnect is one of the
reasons why emacs might receive an X error, but not the only one.
In this case I think it's getting an unrelated X error, because it's
trying to use a visual that doesn't match the one Gtk is using.

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