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Date:      Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:28:39 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Rob <spamrefuse@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X applications crashing under 5.3BETA7 and X.org
Message-ID:  <20041019012839.GA69415@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <41746D50.8030805@yahoo.com>
References:  <200410190013.i9J0DUiP026018@app.auscert.org.au> <1098148119.5119.6.camel@dreamland.chief.home> <41746D50.8030805@yahoo.com>

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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:26:40AM +0900, Rob wrote:
> Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> >On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:13 +1000, freebsd-stable@auscert.org.au wrote:
> >
> >>I have a problem with applications crashing. Xterm will launch and run =
ok,
> >>but any attempt to mouse select text will cause an immediate crash with
> >>this output on the console:
> >>
> >>xterm:  warning, error event received:
> >>X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
> >> Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
> >> Atom id in failed request:  0x17f
> >> Serial number of failed request:  131
> >> Current serial number in output stream:  133
> >>
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >this isn't a Xorg issue it's just a X11 forwarding issue.
> >Newer OpenSSH versions don't use trusted X11 forwarding by default which
> >results in the above error if you try to cut & paste.
> >Just use trusted X11 forwarding and all should be fine.
> >
> >Either ssh -Y server-hostname or add "ForwardX11Trusted yes" to your ssh
> >config file.
>=20
> s/-Y/-X/

No, he meant -Y and that is indeed correct.

Kris

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