tags 357439 +confirmed thanks Hi,
This is a known problem, which appears on some machines but not some others, depending on... Well, nobody seems to actually know what's wrong. Thanks for the report. Regis Andrea De Michele said: > Package: amaya > Version: 9.4-2 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > amaya does not start. I received the following error message: > > The program 'amaya' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'. > (Details: serial 20807 error_code 8 request_code 144 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.) > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: testing/unstable > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7 > Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) > > Versions of packages amaya depends on: > ii libc6 2.3.6-3 GNU C Library: Shared > libraries an > ii libcomerr2 1.38+1.39-WIP-2005.12.31-1 common error description > library > ii libcurl3 7.15.2-3 Multi-protocol file transfer > libra > ii libdb4.3 4.3.29-5 Berkeley v4.3 Database > Libraries [ > ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, > shared lib > ii libgcc1 1:4.0.3-1 GCC support library > ii libglu1-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa OpenGL utility library > [X.Org > ii libidn11 0.5.18-2 GNU libidn library, > implementation > ii libjpeg62 6b-12 The Independent JPEG Group's > JPEG > ii libkrb53 1.4.3-6 MIT Kerberos runtime > libraries > ii libmysqlclien 5.0.18-9 mysql database client library > ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime > ii libraptor1 1.4.8-3 Raptor RDF parser and > serializer l > ii librasqal0 0.9.11-1 Rasqal RDF query library > ii librdf0 1.0.2-2.1 Redland Resource Description > Frame > ii libsqlite3-0 3.2.8-1 SQLite 3 shared library > ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-7 SSL shared libraries > ii libstdc++6 4.0.3-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library > v3 > ii libwxgtk2.6-0 2.6.1.2 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ > GUI t > ii libxml2 2.6.23.dfsg.2-2 GNOME XML library > ii libxslt1.1 1.1.15-4 XSLT processing library - > runtime > ii xlibmesa-gl [ 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4 Mesa 3D graphics library > [X.Org] > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-11 compression library - runtime > > amaya recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > -- "While a monkey can be a manager, it takes a human to be an engineer" Erik Zapletal