armhf (Nexus 7, Pandaboard): XBMC 12.0 RC2 does not start due to an X error

[Till Kamppeter]

Starting xbmc in a terminal window gives the following error:

till@till-nexus7:~$ xbmc
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
  Major opcode of failed request: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
  Value in failed request: 0x0
  Serial number of failed request: 61
  Current serial number in output stream: 68

The process keeps running until killed, for example with Ctrl+C or from another terminal.

This happens with version 12.0~git20121220.0939-rc2-0ubuntu7. With -ubuntu6 and -ubuntu8 the screen gets black and you have to kill the process SSHed in from another machine or via the USB serial console. After that you see the same error.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Downgrading to 11.0 returns to a working XBMC, see

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/UsingTheDevice#Nexus_7_with_Ubuntu_getting_useful:_Media_Player

on how to proceed.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

The same happens with Raring on the Pandaboard ES (OMAP4). Also on the Pandaboard downgrading to XBMC 11 solves the problem.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

Regarding to original description(summary and "till@till-nexus7") the nexus7 and mobile tags are added.
Regarding to comment #2 the raring tag is added.
Regarding to comment #2 the armhf tag is added.

[Sasa Paporovic (melchiaros)]

@till-kamppeter

Hi again Till,

you know it is not so easy to triage a report correctly when the informations are distributed.

Could you report in futur a little bit more compressed(platform, Ubuntu version, so on)?

Thanks