[mythtv-users] 0.24 Trunk 26644 - Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

[Michael T. Dean]

  On 10/05/2010 06:04 AM, David Whyte wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:23 PM, George Poulson wrote:
>> Mythfrontend crashes and exits with this error when opening some (but not
>> all) BBC News pages from MythNews. It appears to be dependent on some
>> content in the page.
>> 2010-10-05 10:16:43.749 MythCoreContext: Connecting to backend server:
>> 192.168.0.6:6543 (try 1 of 1)
>> 2010-10-05 10:16:43.751 Using protocol version 63
>> 2010-10-05 10:16:51.635 MythUIWebBrowser: Loading css from -
>> file:///usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/htmls/mythbrowser.css
>> (<unknown>:4779): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion
>> `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
>> (<unknown>:4779): Gdk-WARNING **:
>> /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a
>> pixmap or window
>> <<frontend exits with no other log entries>>
>>
>> On some web pages the errors appear in the frontend log twice..
>> 2010-10-05 10:19:54.456 MythUIWebBrowser: Loading css from -
>> file:///usr/share/mythtv/themes/default/htmls/mythbrowser.css
>> (<unknown>:5045): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion
>> `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
>> (<unknown>:5045): Gdk-WARNING **:
>> /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a
>> pixmap or window
>> (<unknown>:5045): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_window_get_origin: assertion
>> `GDK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
>> (<unknown>:5045): Gdk-WARNING **:
>> /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a
>> pixmap or window
>> <<frontend exits with no other log entries>>
>> Other apparently similar pages open fine.
>> George
> I think this was down to a dodgy version of the flash player, which
> was causing the Qt browser widget to break on any page that had flash.

Flash 10.1+ (including 10.2 preview 2, "Square").

>   I fixed this locally by downgrading to an older version of flash.

Flash 10.0 or before.

>    I
> believe Qt and mythTV have been updated to fix the issue.

There is a workaround in Qt-Webkit 2.0, which is in Qt 4.7.

Mike