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From: frank@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Frank Adelstein)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: problems with xlock
Message-ID: <82600@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 1 Aug 90 03:46:22 GMT
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Some of our users are having problems when they run xlock.  It will
blank the screen, and then immediately exit with the message:

 X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
   Major opcode of failed request:  26 (X_GrabPointer)
   Minor opcode of failed request:  0
   Resource id in failed request:  0xffff
   Serial number of failed request:  29
   Current serial number in output stream:  29

I haven't had that problem myself, and I can't see anything different in
their environment that would cause it.  Has anyone seen this before, and 
is there some simple cause and equally simple fix for this?

Other details:  X11R4 (with fix-12) on a Sun SLC running SunOS 4.1
		running twm (problem still there with no wm).

Thanks.
--Frank Adelstein.
  frank@cis.ohio-state.edu