Re: Fatal IO error 11

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Geoffrey:

On 07/06/2009 01:42:14 PM Mon, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> I think we've seen this before:
>
> Auto-checked for new messages...
> balsa: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server
> :0.0.
> opening Inbox..
>
> and balsa terminates.

Yes, we have!  <URL:http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580230>

> Two questions:
>
> Is there a workaround?

I see this on a laptop with ATI graphics, and I can get around it by  
either changing from the radeon driver to vesa, or running balsa --sync.   
Neither is happy-making :(

The problem seems to arise from changing the display in a sub-thread, so  
we've tried moving a couple of updates to the main thread; that increases  
the mean time before failure, but (as you'll see on the bug) some more  
remain to be moved.

Balsa is careful to follow the guidelines for updating in a sub-thread, in  
particular flushing the display before terminating the thread, and in the  
past that has always been sufficient.  Something seems to have changed...

> Why does Balsa not wait and try again?

Balsa isn't given the choice--the X server effectively kills it.

Peter