Bug 97836

Summary: vmwgfx_scanout_update: failed to send dirty (-22, Invalid argument)
Product: xorg Reporter: Fujii Hironori <fujii.hironori>
Component: Driver/VMWareAssignee: linux-graphics-maintainer <linux-graphics-maintainer>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Fujii Hironori 2016-09-16 14:51:57 UTC 
Emacs redraws sometimes partially when scrolling or doing incremental searching.
Following error messages are output in `/var/log/Xorg.0.log` when this problem occurs.

> [  1278.046] (EE) vmwgfx_scanout_update: failed to send dirty (-22, Invalid argument)

There are some reports of this problem:

* Super User: ubuntu - Emacs does not redraw properly inside VirtualBox
  <http://superuser.com/questions/702494/>
* Oracle VM VirtualBox: #13687 (Emacs redraw issues with >1 Virtualbox CPU)
  <https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13687>

Vim also has the similar problems:

* Stack Overflow: linux - Gvim redraw issues with Virtual Box and Windows 7 host
  <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25018843/>
* Debian Bug report: #777567 - vim-gtk: Regions of text fail to redraw in gvim
  <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=777567>
* Super User: vim - gvim redraw failure
  <http://superuser.com/questions/343599/>
Comment 1 Fujii Hironori 2016-09-16 14:53:54 UTC 
Created attachment 126580 [details]
test program

I created a test probgam to reproduce this bug.
This bug begin if you resize the window bigger.
Comment 2 Fujii Hironori 2016-09-16 14:54:55 UTC 
Created attachment 126581 [details] [review]
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Comment 3 Martin Peres 2019-11-29 18:51:41 UTC 
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