From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 08:11:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02B5616A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:11:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de (antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de [134.102.176.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3520C43D45 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:11:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rebehn@ant.uni-bremen.de) Received: from bremerhaven.ant.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.176.10] helo=ant.uni-bremen.de) by antsrv1.ant.uni-bremen.de with esmtp (Exim 4.34 (FreeBSD)) id 1Bd2qj-0006q4-2q; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:11:17 +0200 Message-ID: <40D93B24.90301@ant.uni-bremen.de> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 10:11:16 +0200 From: Heinrich Rebehn User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040607 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Heinrich Rebehn References: <40D7035A.2020302@ant.uni-bremen.de> <20040621170833.GA22689@alexis.mi.celestial.com> <40D7FAE3.5020904@ant.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <40D7FAE3.5020904@ant.uni-bremen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd@celestial.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perl-tk no longer working X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:11:23 -0000 Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: >> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our >>> cluster and it has been running fine for some years now. >>> But when i wanted to use it today, it died with: >> >> >> >> My SWAG is that you've updated perl recently, but not updated the >> perl::Tk >> modules. Running two versions of perl on the same machine is possible >> (we >> do it under the OpenPKG.org packagement system all the time), but can >> easily lead to problems like this. >> >> >>> root@antsrv1 [~] # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl >>> [the usual messages about unused variables] >>> X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) >>> Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) >>> Atom id in failed request: 0x1a6 >>> Serial number of failed request: 12 >>> Current serial number in output stream: 15 >>> >>> I have no clue what this could be. Other X11 apps run fine. I am >>> logged in via ssh -X. >>> Versions: >>> FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 >>> p5-Tk-804.027 >>> perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report Language >>> perl-5.8.4 Practical Extraction and Report Language >>> >>> 2 versions of perl? Is this ok? >>> >>> Does anyone have an idea? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Heinrich > > > Problem solved: It was not the perl upgrade, it is the X server which is > to blame. I recently upgraded the Linux installation on my workstation > and there seems to be a problem with xfree there. I did not get > suspicious until i tried running the script under Linux and got exactly > the same error message. Moving to another workstation with a different > version of xfree solved the problem. > Just for the records: There seems to be a problem with SSH's X11 redirection. If i use the (not recommended) linuxhost $ xhost +freebsdhost ssh root@freebsdhost freebsdhost # export DISPLAY=linuxhost:0 freebsdhost # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl to have my perlTk script displaying on my Linux workstation, it works. If i login with linuxhost $ ssh -X root@freebsdhost freebsdhost # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl i get the above error. This is of course a problem with Linux's ssh client - i am posting this only in case someone else encounters this problem. --Heinrich