These are the ramblings of Matthijs Kooijman, concerning the software he hacks on, hobbies he has and occasionally his personal life.
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This afternoon, in an attempt to make Xdmx work, I decided to dist-upgrade Kat and Xanthe, both of my Debian sid boxes. After upgrading 600-ish packages, suddenly I couldn't start any new xterms. Some investigation showed a font problem, and since a font incompatibility was the reason I started upgrading in the first place, I thought it would help to restart my X server.
That turned out to be nasty, since ion, my window manager, crashed on start up with a rather cryptic message.
>> [72] X_CreateWindow (1) 0: BadValue
(integer parameter out of range for operation)
Anyone with some debugging experience will concede that this is not a real pleasure to work with (actually, anyone without this experience will run away screaming seeing this...). Still, I need a window manager to work, so debugging it is...