Re: x11vnc throws “X Error of failed request: BadMatch” after upgrade from 17.04

[Owen Phillis]

Yep, it's something to do with Wayland. 



Thanks Colin.


Cheers,
O.



---- On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 07:24:56 +1100 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote ----




On 5 November 2017 at 02:32, Owen Phillis <ophillis at zoho.com> wrote: 

> Hi guys, 

> 

> Whether I invoke VNC from a remote or local terminal and, no matter the 

> command line I submit, I get: 

> 

> X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 

> Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) 

> Serial number of failed request: 40 

> Current serial number in output stream: 40 

 

Firstly this should really be adddressed to the ubuntu-users list, if 

you want more help please go there, but for the moment I wonder 

whether this is a Wayland issue. Try logging in using X rather than 

Wayland (you can select this from the login screen). 

 

Colin 

 

> 

> The session starts like normal... 

> 

> owen at Thor:~$ x11vnc -storpasswd 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 passing arg to libvncserver: -storpasswd 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 x11vnc version: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10 pid: 13865 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 XOpenDisplay("") failed. 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ... 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 *** XOpenDisplay failed. No -display or DISPLAY. 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 *** Trying ":0" in 4 seconds. Press Ctrl-C to abort. 

> 05/11/2017 12:01:57 *** 1 2 3 4 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 *** XOpenDisplay of ":0" successful. 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 Using X display :0 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 rootwin: 0x270 reswin: 0x2a00001 dpy: 0xf3ac80f0 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 ------------------ USEFUL INFORMATION ------------------ 

> --snip-- 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 X FBPM extension not supported. 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 X display is not capable of DPMS. 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 -------------------------------------------------------- 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 

> 05/11/2017 12:02:01 Default visual ID: 0x24 

> X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 

> Major opcode of failed request: 73 (X_GetImage) 

> Serial number of failed request: 40 

> Current serial number in output stream: 40 

> 

> 

> Any ideas? Is this just me? 

> 

> 

> Cheers, 

> O. 

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