On 04/03/18 09:21, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
I recently replaced my graphics card (with NVIDIA GT 710).
A newer nvidia module was installed
kmod-nvidia-340xx-4.15.7-200 -> kmod-nvidia-390.42-1
I also enabled VDPAU which was incorrectly installed until now.
I don't know what you mean by that. I thought the nVidia drivers had VDPAU enabled
by default.
What do you get as the output of vpauinfo? You may have to install it.
I now have a failure of 'gthumb':
$ gthumb -v
(gthumb:7097): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'gthumb' received an X Window System
error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadLength (poly request too large or internal Xlib length erro'.
(Details: serial 159 error_code 16 request_code 152 (DRI2) minor_code 1)
(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 GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)
and /var/log/messages includes a trace:
<snip>
I see that the gthumb package was updated in 2017, dnf.log says:
Aug 19 18:09:33 DEBUG ---> Package gthumb.x86_64 1:3.4.3-1.fc24 will be upgraded
Aug 19 18:09:33 DEBUG ---> Package gthumb.x86_64 1:3.4.5-1.fc26 will be an
upgrade
The update was part of a f24->f26 upgrade. There is no later version of gthumb but
I do see
version 3.6.0 in f27.
I also see that this gthumb version is one year old:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/gthumb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 988384 Apr 20 2017 /usr/bin/gthumb
The gthumb package depends on the libvdpau package so I suspect some incompatibility.
Reinstalling both packages does not improve the situation.
Is gthumb still maintained?
https://github.com/GNOME/gthumb suggests perusing
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/gthumb which is not present.
Still, too many packages are involved, not the least X/nvidia ones.
Is anyone else seeing this problem? I do not want to log a bug if this is the result
of my system long update history, but I do want to resolve this.
I have another f26 machine that has no problems but does not use vdpau (or nvidia
card).
I am running F27 with the nvidia-390.42-1 drivers installed and a GeForce GTX 660 card.
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ gthumb -v
gthumb 3.6.0, Copyright © 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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