[247] in im locker bugs
[Fwd: Your OLC question about "dialup"]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicoli M Ames)
Wed Apr 6 11:43:10 2005
From: Nicoli M Ames <nmames@MIT.EDU>
To: bug-im@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 11:42:48 -0400
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Hi, I have a little problem with the athena GAIM client (see below)....
Thanks,
Nici
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From: astronut@MIT.EDU
To: Nicoli M Ames <nmames@MIT.EDU>
Subject: Your OLC question about "dialup"
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:26:19 -0400
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Hello, and thank you for using OLC! You asked:
>> I'm sure I put this in the wrong category... but anyway.
>>
>> I'm having trouble running GAIM (from the IM locker) over dialup now that
>> i'm using RHEL 4 instead of RHEL 3. I presume this is because RedHat has
>> migrated to Xorg from XFree86 as the X server. The error message reported
>> was:
>>
>> The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
>> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
>> (Details: serial 290 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
>> (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.)
Unfortunately, this is currently an a rather nebulous unsupported area. Gaim
is maintained by SIPB, not IS&T, so questions regarding Gaim should be
directed to bug-im@mit.edu. RHEL 4 at MIT is still in the pre-release stage,
but you may have some luck directing questions to unix-linux-help@mit.edu,
although they are officially still supporting RHEL 3. Another option would
be to install Gaim on your machine, rather than trying to run it over dialup.
If you have any additional questions, please let us know! Otherwise, you
can close this question by typing "olc done" at an Athena prompt, or by
telling us via email. If we do not hear from you in one week, we will
assume that you are finished and remove this case from our queue.
Thanks,
Erica Peterson, OLC
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<PRE><B>From:</B> astronut@MIT.EDU
<B>To:</B> Nicoli M Ames <nmames@MIT.EDU>
<B>Subject:</B> Your OLC question about "dialup"
<B>Date:</B> Wed, 06 Apr 2005 09:26:19 -0400
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Hello, and thank you for using OLC! You asked:
>> I'm sure I put this in the wrong category... but anyway.
>>
>> I'm having trouble running GAIM (from the IM locker) over dialup now that
>> i'm using RHEL 4 instead of RHEL 3. I presume this is because RedHat has
>> migrated to Xorg from XFree86 as the X server. The error message reported
>> was:
>>
>> The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
>> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
>> The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
>> (Details: serial 290 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
>> (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.)
Unfortunately, this is currently an a rather nebulous unsupported area. Gaim
is maintained by SIPB, not IS&T, so questions regarding Gaim should be
directed to bug-im@mit.edu. RHEL 4 at MIT is still in the pre-release stage,
but you may have some luck directing questions to unix-linux-help@mit.edu,
although they are officially still supporting RHEL 3. Another option would
be to install Gaim on your machine, rather than trying to run it over dialup.
If you have any additional questions, please let us know! Otherwise, you
can close this question by typing "olc done" at an Athena prompt, or by
telling us via email. If we do not hear from you in one week, we will
assume that you are finished and remove this case from our queue.
Thanks,
Erica Peterson, OLC</PRE>
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