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1. I installed XBMC yesterday the installed version is 9.04~beta1~jaunty1
2. I'm using the jaunty jackalope ubuntu released in April gnome is version 2.26.1
3. Using 64 bit
4. Installed using synaptic package manager
6. Open XBMC from gnome and flashes black screen then fails to load
7.
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$ xbmc
The XBMC_HOME environment variable is not set.
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 1 (X_CreateWindow)
Serial number of failed request: 21
Current serial number in output stream: 22
CRITSEC[0x123a948]: Trying to enter destroyed section.
CRITSEC[0x123a948]: Trying to leave destroyed section.
daniel@daniel-desktop:~$

Worked it out by letting ubuntu install some better graphics drivers.

/golfclap for me

Are you sure that you did not started XBMC as different user, than the one logged in? Like 'root'