Git gui error RenderBadPicture

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 9.04 and now I'm getting the following error when when closing git gui using the "close button", when exiting via Ctrl-Q this error does not occur:

wink@pacific:~/foss/protobuf-2.1.0$ git gui
X Error of failed request:  RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  152 (RENDER)
  Minor opcode of failed request:  7 (RenderFreePicture)
  Picture id in failed request: 0x3a000e2
  Serial number of failed request:  1845
  Current serial number in output stream:  1860

There appears to be no ill effects but it is disconcerting and I'll try to get in the habit of quiting via Ctrl-Q but thought someone might like to know. I've built git from sources and the version is:

wink@pacific:~/foss/protobuf-2.1.0$ git --version git version 1.6.3.GIT

-- Wink

This is likely due to a bug in Tk, the widget toolkit of 'git gui'. The bug was set to "obsolete" back in 2007, but there's no indication the problem was fixed.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=112997&aid=1821174&group_id=12997

Jeff

A little more information, using Ctrl-Q for exiting doesn't get around the problem. That only works if you happen to exit immediately, if you do something such as click on a file and show the differences it also reports the same error.

-- Wink

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jeff Epler<jepler@unpythonic.net> wrote:

You might like to raise this on the Tk bug tracker at sourceforge. On my Ubuntu system I can reproduce this with Tk 8.5.7 but not with 8.4.19 nor the current HEAD (8.6b1.1). As this is something in the use of Xft I'd not expect to see a problem with 8.4.x as this was added to 8.5+. I can't see anything explicit that should have fixed this in the 8.6 tree though.