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The X Windows System error issues I was having have disappeared. Hallelujah!

Recent changes in gtk3 have caused issues for some programs.

kalu and volumeicon, for example, both exit with:
(kalu:32401): Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'kalu' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
(Details: serial 186 error_code 8 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
(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 GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Has anyone else encountered this?

Andrew, I'm sure it is. I han't had the time to look into it yet, but I will at some point. In the meantime, I manually clone the sources (git clone git://something.git), move them into the src directory and then run makepkg and it works.

@GordonGR: sounds like a Git issue to me rather than a package issue. Were you able to resolve it or are you still having problems?

It seems it doesn't want to clone:
Cloning into bare repository '/home/nikos/Desktop/gtk3-git/gtk+'...
remote: Counting objects: 335875, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (56031/56031), done.
remote: Total 335875 (delta 283262), reused 330936 (delta 279430)
Receiving objects: 100% (335875/335875), 239.40 MiB | 653.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (283262/283262), done.
fatal: object of unexpected type
fatal: index-pack failed

@ivdok: As we discussed on IRC the solution was to:
yaourt -S gobject-introspection-git
then installing gtk3-git via yaourt gave a successful build.

@all: If you have any questions or need immediate assistance feel free to ping me on irc.freenode.net #archlinux

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/g-ir-scanner", line 46, in <module>
sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv))
File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 481, in scanner_main
main.transform()
File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/maintransformer.py", line 58, in transform
self._namespace.walk(self._pass_fixup_hidden_fields)
File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/ast.py", line 485, in walk
node.walk(callback, [])
File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/ast.py", line 576, in walk
res = callback(self, chain)
File "/usr/lib/gobject-introspection/giscanner/maintransformer.py", line 113, in _pass_fixup_hidden_fields
and field.name.startswith('_')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'startswith'
/usr/share/gobject-introspection-1.0/Makefile.introspection:153: recipe for target 'Gtk-3.0.gir' failed
make[4]: *** [Gtk-3.0.gir] Error 1

Not sure how to fix. Inspecting Google for similar errors.

@ivdok added >=2.39.0 requirement to PKGBUILD. Also added gobject-introspection-git because I was failing on the non-git ver.

Bumped Git to 2.39 manually, via editing PKGBUILD. Compiles steadily.

...
checking for wayland-scanner... /usr/bin/wayland-scanner
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for BASE_DEPENDENCIES... no
configure: error: Package requirements (glib-2.0 >= 2.39.0 atk >= 2.7.5 pango >= 1.32.4 cairo >= 1.12.0 cairo-gobject >= 1.12.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.27.1) were not met:

Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.39.0' but version of GLib is 2.37.8

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables BASE_DEPENDENCIES_CFLAGS
and BASE_DEPENDENCIES_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build gtk3-git.


Did not yet tried glib2-git, but version number is surely ~2.37.