Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 3.00-13
Severity: normal
Since the upgrade to sarge, I find that xpdf always fails on the first
try with a message like:
X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont)
Serial number of failed request: 455
Current serial number in output stream: 456
But then if I just re-issue the *same* command line, it works.
On Googling for the error message, I came upon Debian Bug #238100, in
which Branden Robinson said:
Any app that doesn't fall back to doing video via the MIT-SHM extension
rather than XVideo should probably have a bug filed against it.
[That was in response to another package that provoked a similar
message.] (That's why I'm reporting the bug as due to xpdf rather than
the X server; no other programs are producing it.)
Let me also point out
http://www.xfree86.org/current/isc8.html
where there is a comment (again about a similar X error message) that
You also should increase MAXUMEM to its maximum, else programs
may die with ... [a BadAlloc error]
and suggests tuning kernel parameters with something called xf86install,
which I don't seem to have.
If this is a configuration problem, I'd appreciate a pointer on how to
fix it. I'm sending this from an AMD Athlon box, but the same problem
exists on a P III box with similar software.
-- A. T. Young
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages xpdf-reader depends on:
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii lesstif2 1:0.93.94-11.4 OSF/Motif 2.1 implementation relea
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-13 GCC support library
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.0.2-3 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X pixmap library
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xpdf-common 3.00-13 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4.sarge.2 compression library - runtime
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