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Re: Re: RenderBadPicture error while running

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  • Subject: [mg88828] Re: [mg88796] Re: RenderBadPicture error while running
  • From: Chris Hill <chill at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 23:28:50 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <g0h4l3$lam$1@smc.vnet.net>

Kishan and Peter,

Setting the environment variable XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS to 1 before 
starting Mathematica may correct this problem.

env XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 mathematica

Chris Hill
Wolfram Research

At 04:36 AM 5/16/2008, Peter Pein wrote:
>Hi dear group,
>
>I get hundreds of these messages since I upgraded to Fedora Linux 9 (for
>x86_64 - architecture). Additionally the fonts are only partally shown
>in the Frontend (FontPaths are set in xorg.conf and xset q confirms they
>are recognized).
>
>Mathematica 6 worked well with Fedora 8.
>
>  The same messages and symptoms ('special' characters like brackets and
>'+' display but letters and digits do not) on Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64.
>
>Mathematica 5 works fine in both cases.
>
>openSuse 10.3  + Mathematica 6 works perfectly, but I did a fresh
>install on a small partition and do not want to migrate from Fedora to
>openSuse (but maybe I will do. Fedora 9 came without 3D-support (at
>least for my ATI-Radeon based card); unbelievable these days, isn't it?).
>
>I really can not figure out, why this happens and any idea is welcome.
>
>
>TIA,
>Peter
>
>
>kishan.vyas.engg at gmail.com schrieb:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am getting an error while running Mathematica 6 on my Linux machine.
> > The details of the error is as follows. Please help me out if you know
> > the solution.
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture
> > parameter)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  154 (RENDER)
> >   Minor opcode of failed request:  7 (RenderFreePicture)
> >     Picture id in failed request: 0x2a09632
> > Serial number of failed request:  382906
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  382909
> >
> > X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
> >   Major opcode of failed request:  154 (RENDER)
> >   Minor opcode of failed request:  4 (RenderCreatePicture)
> >   Serial number of failed request:  383763
> >   Current serial number in output stream:  383766
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kishan.
> >



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