The program 'VESTA' received an X Window System error on ubuntu 12.04 64bit

[Ibrahim Adetunji]

Dear all,
 I am trying to run vesta on ubuntu 12.04 and below is the error message a received wheneevr i run ./VESTA.

The program 'VESTA' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
  (Details: serial 180 error_code 1 request_code 154 minor_code 19)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Could anybody with idea  on how to solve this problem help me out.

Regards,
Ibrahim

[Hui L]

I've been getting the exact same error message. I hope someone knows how to fix this problem.

[Soham Banerjee]

Hi all,

I encountered a similar problem on Ubuntu 16.04 after successfully running VESTA for some time. I think this is due to a conflict with upgraded NVIDIA drivers installed from Ubuntu's graphics package repositories. The nvidia x-server error had a different signature than the one above:

Details: serial 222 error_code 2 request_code 154 minor_code 24

I was unable to troubleshoot this error. My workaround was to deprecate my current nvidia driver, by purging nvidia installed from Ubuntu, and installing a slightly older driver from nvidia manually. The nvidia driver that prevented VESTA from running on my system was 375.20 released on 10/18/16. I installed 361.45 from 06/28/16 which allows VESTA to run without any X Window System errors. I'm not sure if the newest drivers (>375.20) would work with VESTA, but would like to be able to upgrade my graphics driver and still use this program. 

Hope this gives some useful info. 

Best,

Soham