Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 03:08:39 +0200 From: Sascha Holzleiter <sascha@daemonground.de> To: freebsd-stable@auscert.org.au Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X applications crashing under 5.3BETA7 and X.org Message-ID: <1098148119.5119.6.camel@dreamland.chief.home> In-Reply-To: <200410190013.i9J0DUiP026018@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200410190013.i9J0DUiP026018@app.auscert.org.au>
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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. -- Sascha
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