That looks like a bug we fixed in Solaris 10 a couple of years ago - have
you installed patch 119059-04 (sparc) /119060-04 (x86) or later?
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Chris Jacob wrote:
> Hi Alan.
>
> soleil:bin:7 > xdpyinfo -queryExt | grep opcode
> ...
> XINERAMA (opcode: 128)
> ...
>
> (some edited out for readability...)
>
> Thanks for your reply, and help!
>
> CDEJ
>
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Chris Jacob wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there.
>>>
>>> I'm following instructions in the README file to email problems here...
>>>
>>> I've just installed (extracted) firefox 2.0.0.11 on a solaris 10
>>> machine as per the README at
>>> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.11/contrib/solaris_tarball/README.txt
>>>
>>>
>>> I untar'd it to /opt/firefox, and on running:
>>>
>>> /opt/firefox/firefox &
>>>
>>> I get the following error:
>>>
>>> soleil:firefox:36 > /opt/firefox/firefox
>>> The program 'firefox-bin' 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 10 error_code 16 request_code 128 minor_code 4)
>>
>>
>> Request code 128 indicates an X extension call failed, but those numbers
>> are dynamically assigned based on your configuration - to find out which
>> extension it is, please run "xdpyinfo -queryExt | grep opcode" and look
>> for which one lists "opcode: 128".
>>
>
