I have had aMSN-0.94 for over a year and it has worked flawlessly until about a week ago, when it started to crash on every try to log in. At first it only crashed when choosing unicode, now it crashes whatever encoding I choose. Starting aMSN in the terminal window i get the following error message: $ amsn X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 45 (X_OpenFont) Value in failed request: 0x2c0013f Serial number of failed request: 3820 Current serial number in output stream: 3821 I have looked for help on Google, but I do not find so much. On one site I was told to delete the config.xml in .amsn, but there is no such file at all any more. I kinda depend on this app as Gaim is unable to send files over msn. linfan Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
did you upgrade tcl or tk or Xorg ?
I do not remember all upgrades, but I do emerge -uDav world every morning. Funny thing, though, I have two hotmail accounts - it only crashes with linsefan@hotmail.com. When I start it with borje_holmberg@hotmail.com it is ok? I also have aMSN on the other computer within the network (archlinux) and i have no problem with linsefan@hotmail.com on that one. Seems the Gentoo aMSN doesn't like my linsefan hotmail account - hehe I am very confused. linfan
I think this is about amsn not finding a font its looking for.. In .amsn/<accoutname>/config.xml.. take the value of "mychatfont" and "basefont" and copy it from the working to the non-working account and see if it works better. If that doesnt work, in .amsn/<brokenaccount>/config.xml, you can try setting "disableuserfonts" to 0 and make sure the fonts in there are availabel to X (you can check with xfontsel). Also make sure the font in .amsn/gconfig.xml are available too.
Goodness gracious, all this ado :( It seems to be too tough a job for me - hehe. Is there no easier way? What might have gone wrong - why does it work from scratch with one account, but not with another??? I used to love Gentoo, but I am getting a bit bored with it lately. Thank you any way for your most kind try, but this is jeopardizing my health. Hugs linfan
hey this isnt a gentoo bug.. its a amsn bug ;) ... if you want an easy solution you can copy over the whole config.xml file from the working to the broken account and see if it works.. oh and keep a backup of the one from the broken account, just in case ;)
You are right :) It is not Gentoo... but it is within Gentoo - hehe Well, the suggested easy fix did not work... I guess Gaim is the only app that will work with messenger on this install. Thanks for trying, just delete this bug. I will give up on aMSN and Gentoo, although I feel furious and will probably switch distro soon. It is not your fault. I just feel Gentoo takes too much time and work, which I could use for more rewarding things. emerge -C amsn Love, linfan
Today I did a font cleanup and edited the xorg.conf font list and wiped out everything added from /etc/fonts/local.conf. Also deleted ~/.fonts.cache-1 and rebooted. (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts) Also manually deleted all references to amsn on the puter. I then reinstalled amsn - and for now it seems to work again. Maybe it was some conflict with the fonts and something hanging around from the xfree86 era, before the transition to xorg.conf a year ago or so. linfan
lets close the bug then
