Steps to reproduce: 1) Open The GIMP. 2) Create a new image. 3) Attempt to draw on the canvas with f.ex the pencil tool. Expected results: Artwork! Actual results: The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 34369 error_code 3 request_code 39 minor_code 0) (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.) (script-fu:15790): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error I am using gimp-2.3.16 and openbox-3.4.0. Last time I used gimp was back around the middle of April, when I was using Beryl. Aside from regular updates, the window manager is the only significant change to my system since then. I rebuilt gimp, but it didn't help. I Googled the error message, but the only results I got placed the blame on clipboard managers such as Klipper, which I'm not using. tarpman@peregrine ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 i686 Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Gentoo Base System release 2.0.0_alpha3 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 23:50:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=nocona -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.osuosl.org/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_CA.utf8" LC_ALL="en_CA.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/tarpman" SYNC="rsync://rsync1.ca.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac acpi alsa amr ao async berkdb bittorrent branding bzip2 cairo caps cscope custom-cflags dbus divx dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdread expat fam ftp gdbm gif glitz gmedia hal hpn iconv idn insecure-savers ithreads javascript jpeg logrotate mad mailwrapper math midi mmap mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg msn multicall ncurses nethack no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive opengl pam pango pcre pdf pic png quicktime readline samba slang smp srt sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg symlink theora threads truetype unicode urandom vim vim-pager vim-syntax vim-with-x vorbis wifi win32codecs wmp x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="none nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I have the same problem. This is a development version of GIMP. Debug messages may appear here. (null): image-type contains unrecognizable parts:'Image with 2 layers' jpeg-load: found EXIF block (13315 bytes) The program 'gimp' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. (Details: serial 96884 error_code 3 request_code 39 minor_code 0) (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.) (script-fu:624): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: wire_read(): error --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 2600+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 05:20:01 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.supp.name/ ftp://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/gentoo/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="cs_CZ.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,--enable-new-dtags,--sort-common,-s" LINGUAS="en cs" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/var/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bzip2 cairo cdparanoia cdr cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus directfb dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg firefox flac font-server foomaticdb ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gpm gstreamer hal iconv icq icu imagemagick ipv6 isdnlog java javascript joystick jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kerberos kipi ldap libg++ live lm_sensors lzo mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mng mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mudflap musepack mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php pic png posix pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real reflection sdl session slang spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en cs" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I ran into the same error, and found this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7370 I'm downgrading my libX11 back to 1.1.1-r1 to see if this fixes the issue. Will report any results.
Downgrading to x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1-r1 fixed this problem for me. I can now draw on and edit images in GIMP without crashing.
*** Bug 181481 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This issue has been fixed upstream in libX11 (see http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11222 and http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/lib/libX11.git;a=commitdiff;h=8e76bcf3cafda85058ce5f35f1f81929f4772f72)
*** Bug 182041 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Please re-test with libX11-1.1.2-r1
(In reply to comment #7) > Please re-test with libX11-1.1.2-r1 Fixed, thanks!
Confirm, fixed
