X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)

[Jon TURNEY]

Marzio.VIDALI@ec.europa.eu wrote:
> I recently updated my Cygwin installation and I'm facing a strange problem now.
> I use Cygwin (Xwin X Server release 6.8.99.901-4) on Windows XP to work on a fully patched Solaris 9 workstation.
> When I try to run VNC on the Solaris workstation, it pops up the VNC authentication dialog as it should, but as soon as I start writing the password in it, VNC fails and I get this message: 
> 
>  CConn:       connected to host remotepc port 5900
>  CConnection: Server supports RFB protocol version 3.7
>  CConnection: Using RFB protocol version 3.7
> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  136 (XKEYBOARD)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  16 (XkbSetNamedIndicator)
>   Serial number of failed request:  365
>   Current serial number in output stream:  373
> 
> If I work locally on the Solaris box, this doesn't happen. If I try the same on a XP machine, where I have an older installation of Cygwin (Xwin X Server release 6.8.2.0-4) I get no problems. So I think the problem is in Cygwin.
> I tried to find a solution digging in Google and forums, a found a similar issue described in http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-12/msg00001.html and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/292973, but the suggested solution (apply patch 112785-64 on the Solaris box) doesn't solve the issue.
> Thanks for any help or suggestion.

I'm afraid this has the status of 'known issue' at the moment, until someone 
who can reproduce the problem works on it.

Tracking in bugzilla:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9780

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