I've written a small program using the gtk2hs library and it crashes at unpredictable times with X windows errors like the one below. I looked for the messages online and found various people talking about buggy gtk libraries but no clear solutions. I don't know a lot about X windows or what these errors mean. Has anyone else had this problem or know what to do? The program is a simple implementation of the Conway Life game. It doesn't have very much going on except that the main window is an animation showing the evolution of the game. I tried running with the --sync option as it said and you get an almost immediate error like "Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1652)!". Even these are not predictable and often come after several screen updates. I'm using the Gtk.timeoutAddFull function to do the animation. Note that the error_code, request_code, etc.. changes with each crash. It's as though it picks a
random error code each time. I've compiled with both ghc 6.4.2 and 6.6.1 and gtk2hs 0.9.12 and 0.9.12.1. I've tried various combinations of -O flags as well. Same problem every time.<br><br><br><br>A typical crash message<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>The program 'hlh' received an X Window System error.<br>This probably reflects a bug in the program.<br>The error was 'BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)'.<br> (Details: serial 236321 error_code 9 request_code 62 minor_code 0)<br> (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;<br> that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.<br> To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line<br> option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful<br> backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)<br> <p> 
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