xfce4-panel on Solaris/BrokenWindows: BadAlloc error

[Olivier Fourdan]

Mike,

MAke sure you don't have older panel plugins arround, usually in
/usr/lib/xfce4/panel-plugins/

Best would be to remove them all together and redo the install.

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Wed, 2003-07-23 at 22:50, Mike Russo wrote:
> Hello All! I've been a happy user of XFce since 3.8.11, it has
> lengthened the life of my little sparcstation 20. of course i still want
> to push it, so I've been trying out XFce 4 betas, and have gotten
> everything to compile and work except xfce4-panel... when I run it, I
> get the message:
> [miker at hamlin miker]$ xfce4-panel                             
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: Running without session manager
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: module clock successfully loaded
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: module mailcheck successfully loaded
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: module switcher successfully loaded
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: module systembuttons successfully loaded
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: module pager successfully loaded
> ** Message: xfce4-panel: module separator successfully loaded
> The program 'xfce4-panel' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 117 error_code 11 request_code 131 minor_code 5)
>   (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.)
> 
> xfwm4 and all the other XFce4 components load fine, and work well. If
> you'd like me to do any type of testing, straceing, or debugging, let me
> know. So far I know that if I set up an Xvnc server on the same machine,
> all the XFce4 components (including the panel) run fine. 
> 
>  Russo <miker at readq.com>
> ReadQ Systems, Inc.
> 
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