Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

[Robert Noland]

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 18:23 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> ,--- You/O. (Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:19:41 +0100) ----*
> | After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4
> | and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now
> | firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this
> | error message:
> | 
> | Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> 
> Interesting -- I just did my comprehensive upgrade, as a part of which
> xorg-server went from 1.5.3_1,1 to 1.5.3_2,1.
> 
> And this is what I see now, for the first time, and consistently:
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> $ xterm&
> [3] 12585
> 
> $ emacs &       
> [4] 12644
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
> Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

This is harmless, it indicates that libXext has support for generic
events, but the server does not yet.

robert.

> ----------------------------------------
> 
> The garbage still pollutes my windows periodically, so, I guess, my
> next xorg-server will be 1.4.
> 
> For reference, my system is:
> 
>    i386 FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE Sun Jan 25 06:28:38 EST 2009
> 
> It not being CURRENT, I took the liberty of cc: freebsd-ports at freebsd.org.
> 
> -- Alex -- alex-goncharov at comcast.net --
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Robert Noland <rnoland at FreeBSD.org>
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