calling "copy-region-as-kill" causes emacs to exit

[David Edmondson]

Binary package hint: emacs-snapshot

Calling "copy-region-as-kill" causes emacs to quit:

: aw; emacs -q
X protocol error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) on protocol request 18
: aw;

In emacs, I selected a small chunk of text using the keyboard and then typed:
M-x copy-region-as-kill.

The problem doesn't occur with "emacs -nw -q" (not so surprising, given that it's an
X protocol error).

Window manager is awesome 2.3.4-1.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: emacs-snapshot-gtk None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/emacs-snapshot-gtk.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: emacs-snapshot
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[David Edmondson (dme)]

This is caused by an application (xcb) adding UTF8_STRING typed cut buffer properties. Emacs attempts
to rotate such properties and fails.