Frequent Xorg crashes

[cpnfeeny]

Hi,

Loving spectrwm so far, but I'm getting lots of X crashes that send me back to the command line. Here are the relevant lines from the log:

X Error of failed request:  BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length error)
  Major opcode of failed request:  139 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  20 (RenderAddGlyphs)
  Serial number of failed request:  1072
  Current serial number in output stream:  65050
X connection to :0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

uname -r 
5.7.5-arch1-1

spectrwm -v 
spectrwm 3.4.0 Build: 3.4.0

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

Thanks.

[LordReg]

Hi,
I suggest trying the AUR/spectrwm-git package to see if you still have the issue. A few bugs have been fixed since 3.4.0 but the crash may be due to a modification made by the community/spectrwm 3.4.0-2 package: #363 (comment)
Let me know if you still experience the issue with the latest version and I'll look into it.

[marcopeereboom]

This does seem like an upstream induced crash. Please reopen if that is not the case.

[Blarse]

I have the same problem, but my system is:
5.7.7-arch1-1; spectrwm 3.4.1 Build: c8bbe51f2534db20d9c3e6598a99d28d48f8c224

I couldn't find anything in the log files and after crash Xorg says Server terminated successfully.

I suppose the problem is somehow related to either spectrwm config or firefox.

[Blarse]

spectrwm_crash.log

Just got a crash log.

[Blarse]

So it looks like I've found a solution. The problem was with the Emoji fonts I guess. In order to solve this problem you need to install aur:ttf-symbola.

Some helpful github issues:
LukeSmithxyz/voidrice#242
LukeSmithxyz/voidrice#284