Xlib error on 2.4 map start

[Ed]

Nexuiz has just errored on me on a level change running a listen server with some bots. I'd completed the previous game and it was going to rotate round to the next map when I was left at a terminal:

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Fake CD track 3 playing...
Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xb1)!


In other ways 2.4 seems fine and I've changed levels before without this issue.

Nexuiz is still running but in the background without a window. There seems to be no way of switching back to the game.

[divVerent]

Which window manager are you using?

Are you using weird X11 protocol apps, like Xgl?

[Ed]

Which window manager are you using?

I'm running KDE 3.5.7

Are you using weird X11 protocol apps, like Xgl?

No, just Xorg, compositing is available but not used.

Having read a few things, it looks like this comes up when multiple X apps try to write to the screen at the same time. Some media players seem to suffer from it. A workaround seems to be to run in a window rather than full screen.

[kyre]

"Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0xb1)!"
This is what happens when apps try to send X messages through a single connection from multiple threads without calling XInitThreads() first. They probably need to be compiled with -D_REENTRANT as well.

Was it the glx or sdl version you were running? My guess would be sdl, and something crashed in the sound thread which triggered sdl's crash handler which tries to shut down "cleanly", and ended up posting x events from the wrong thread.

[Ed]

Yes, it was the SDL executable. Has anyone else reported sound issues? I've had a complete loss of sound twice (on different machines), could this be related?