Reply To: antiX-TV failure

[ElCuarteadorMember]

As follow up of the previous discussion: I booted into antiX 26 Live, runit mode, with the default zzz-IceWM, from a USB stick with Ventoy, so using the original ISO file for antiX 26 64 bits (no persistence). Then I ran aCSTV from the terminal. In summary (details below), what I see is similar to what happens booting from my live antiX 26 USB drive with static persistence (regularly updated with antiX-Updater and with the new 6.6.137 kernel), after the changes suggested by @Robin above (item 1-).

Right after start, I got the following messages:

 $ aCSTV.sh
nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied

(gtkdialog:17062): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:22:43.450: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large

aCSTV continued running well. When I changed the channel list from the default one, I got this:

The program 'gtkdialog' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 7623 error_code 3 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 --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.)
Exiting... (Quit)
Terminated
demo@antix1:~
$ nice: cannot set niceness: Permission denied

(gtkdialog:26706): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:26:20.841: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large

aCSTV continued running normally. When I changed to page 2 of the channel list, I got:

grep: Invalid regular expression
/usr/local/bin/aCSTV.sh: line 680: [: -gt: unary operator expected
X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  15 (X_QueryTree)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x6036eb
  Serial number of failed request:  144
  Current serial number in output stream:  144

(gtkdialog:28936): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:26:41.470: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
2026/05/14 10:30:41 socat[38117] E GOPEN: /dev/shm/aCSTV-mpv-socket-2489300: Connection refused

And when moving on to page 3:

(gtkdialog:39754): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:30:51.970: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large
2026/05/14 10:30:59 socat[40237] E GOPEN: /dev/shm/aCSTV-mpv-socket-2489300: Connection refused

Please note that on this second page change, the “X Error of failed request” does not show up any longer. Again aCSTV kept working well. When changing back to page 2:

(gtkdialog:41873): Gdk-WARNING **: 10:31:09.905: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large

/bin/bash: sh:: No such file or directory

The application continued running well, I could open a couple of TV channels, having the problem of the video playing very slow. I added the mpv.conf file suggested by @Robin with mpv parameters, and then video playing was very good, but with significant CPU load (similar to playing with the USB stick with persistence).

My conclusion is that I did have a problem in my Live USB stick with persistance that was solved by @Robin’s suggestion 1- above, but some of the warning/error messages are showing up also in my computer on a “fresh” version of antiX 26. The good news is that aCSTV continues running as normal, so all that would not be noticed if the application is run from the menu instead of the terminal.

If I can provide additional information or run any further test, please let me know.