BadMatch recurring errors

Wed Oct 5 01:00:05 CDT 2005

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 03:17:02AM +0200, Jonathan Ernst wrote:
> A lot of people are complaining about BadMatch on #winehq and in a lot
> of bug reports (old or new). Does someone know what they are about ? It
> would be nice to have this class of bugs fixed before 0.9 is out.
> 
> http://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=BadMatch&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailreporter2=1&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=substring&email2=&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order=Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0=
> 
> shows 19 bugs that have things like:
> 
> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
>   Serial number of failed request:  56463
>   Current serial number in output stream:  56463
> 
> (The numbers change depending on the bug/application)
> 
> (03:10:15) jernst: I see a lot of "X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)" (I have this error sometimes) in bug reports. Does someone know why ?
> (03:11:22) cmorgan: yeah, people report X Error of failed request daily
> on #winehq
> (03:12:08) jernst: you know where it comes from ? Does it come from
> xorg ?
> (03:12:16) cmorgan: i've no idea where it comes from
> (03:12:22) cmorgan: i hope we can stop it though
> (03:12:33) cmorgan: it seems like a bad thing
> (03:12:47) ivanleo: jernst:yeah well age of empires has always had that
> problem
> (03:13:04) jernst: cmorgan: yep, it appears in many programs. Maybe it's
> worth posting to wine-devel ?
> (03:13:11) cmorgan: jernst: probably

I have seen one occurence in a program (SubtitleWorkshop) compressed by UPX
(an exepacker).

It goes away when running with +relay debugging, so I suspect some stack brokeness.

Ciao, Marcus