Comment 58 for bug 315456

Can you PLEASE test with an older version of xnee, e.g.

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/xnee/xnee-3.02.tar.gz

I suspect that xnee tries to (cleverly?) work around the bug in Xorg. Using an older version without the "workaround" would test RECORD I think.

(In reply to comment #34)
> (In reply to comment #33)
> > (In reply to comment #32)
> > > Created an attachment (id=33231) [details] [details] [details]
> > > 0001-Re-enable-RECORD-extension.patch
> > > New patch, seems to work now. Please let me know if this one looks alright.
> > So far it works.
> > I privately made AMD64 xorg-7.4 debian packages and put them at the link below.
> > They are not from debian/ubuntu.
> i installed them on my testing/unstable and keep getting error 35 (Record
> memory failure) from xnee:
>
> cnee --record --mouse -o /tmp/booiiing.xns
> Error received:
> error type 0 (0x0)
> error code 143 (0x8f)
> error code major 134 (0x86)
> error code minor 5 (0x5)
> display 7231616 (0x6e5880)
> XRecordBadContext
> This error can be ignored
> Error number: 35
> Error: Record memory failure
> Solution: Xnee failed due to bad data received from RECORD extension
>
> if i am using gnee, i also get "*** glibc detected *** gnee: malloc(): memory
> corruption:" when exiting the program after a record-attempt.
>