[4788] in Athena Bugs
xmh fails on edit operation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (geer@crl.dec.com)
Wed Apr 18 21:27:26 1990
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 21:24:38 EDT
From: geer@crl.dec.com
To: bugs@crl.dec.com
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
WHAT'S WRONG
Xmh fatal error on a legitimate edit operation.
ENVIRONMENT
Ultrix 3.1 on PMAX
crltrx:/dlenv0/root0.mips/usr/local/bin/X11/xmh <- X11R4
REPEAT BY
Cut via ^W from a large message (177k bytes) results
in the following:
X Error of failed request: BadLength (poly request too large
or internal Xlib length error)
Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
Minor opcode of failed request: 0
Resource id in failed request: 0x8000a5
Serial number of failed request: 73951
Current serial number in output stream: 73977
[2] Exit 1 xmh
DISCUSSION
Perhaps this is a toolkit problem?
--dan
