[OM Cooker] XCB error - What does journalctl actually mean?

Chris Tanner christopher.tanner at sympatico.ca
Wed Jan 13 06:57:11 EST 2016


If journalctl reports errors such as Ben mentions below, should we post 
a bug report? I saw similar ones yesterday.

Regards,

Chris

On 13/01/16 03:46 AM, Tomasz Gajc wrote:
> With Lx 3, we hane systemd in userspace so running journalctl as a non 
> root user  will show logs for current logged in session.
>
> /var/lib/{messages,syslog} got obsoleted when journalctl got 
> implemented in systemd 4-5 years ago :)
>
> These XCB errors says that something in backed in failing, for example 
> gfx driver.
>
> 2016-01-13 2:21 GMT+01:00 Ben Bullard <benbullard79 at cox.net 
> <mailto:benbullard79 at cox.net>>:
>
>     In OM Lx 3 on hardware or in VirtualBox when I run 'journalctl
>     -me' I get a lot, meaning a large number of, lines like this:
>
>     Jan 12 18:57:15 ben-pc kwin_x11[4759]: QXcbConnection: XCB error:
>     9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 10954, resource id: 0, major code: 14
>     (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
>
>     and
>
>     Jan 12 18:57:15 ben-pc kwin_x11[4759]: QXcbConnection: XCB error:
>     3 (BadWindow), sequence: 11879, resource id: 35651586, major code:
>     18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
>
>     both say XCB error. Is this really an error? Why don't I see
>     anything like this in 2014? In general in OM Lx 3 I get a lot of
>     stuff from journalctl about kwin_x11, kdeinit5, and
>     kscreen_backend_launcher. Normally in other OS's I see mostly
>     stuff about kernel, systemd, dbus, and networkmanager which I have
>     grown to think of as normal.
>
>     Ever since I've gotten used to using journalctl I've been
>     perplexed as to why in OM Lx 3 and _only_ OM Lx 3 there are a ton
>     of errors related to graphical stuff and not what I think are
>     normal 'under the hood' details of a Linux operating system that I
>     see elsewhere.
>
>     To be sure, currently my OM Lx 3 is working OK. Therefore I don't
>     know that there is a problem but the preponderance of graphical
>     errors is concerning.
>
>     Attached is current output of journalctl -me from OM Lx 3 on
>     partition.
>
>     -- 
>     Ben Bullard
>     ben79
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