From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 01:36:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71AD516A4CF for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:36:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from auk1.snu.ac.kr (auk1.snu.ac.kr [147.46.100.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE0643D5C for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:36:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spamrefuse@yahoo.com) Received: from [147.46.44.181] (spamrefuse@yahoo.com) by auk1.snu.ac.kr (Terrace Internet Messaging Server) with ESMTP id 2004101910:34:34:301351.15513.2821008304 for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:34:34 +0900 (KST) Message-ID: <41746F8F.4050805@yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:36:15 +0900 From: Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041017 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200410190013.i9J0DUiP026018@app.auscert.org.au> <1098148119.5119.6.camel@dreamland.chief.home> <41746D50.8030805@yahoo.com> <20041019012839.GA69415@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041019012839.GA69415@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TERRACE-SPAMMARK: NO (SR:5.63) (by Terrace) Subject: Re: X applications crashing under 5.3BETA7 and X.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:36:21 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > 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. >> >>s/-Y/-X/ > > No, he meant -Y and that is indeed correct. Sorry, I verified this on a my 4-Stable PC and the -Y option was not there. It's there only with 5.3. Bottom line is: with 5.3 being inbetween Current and Stable, and 6 being the HEAD, I'm always confused what's discussed on Stable and Current mailinglists :). Cheers, Rob.