From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 01:09:02 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 EF38A16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:09:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.daemonground.de (daemonground.de [217.160.129.149]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891FE43D2F for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 01:08:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sascha@daemonground.de) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.daemonground.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2E5D89FFF; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 03:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.daemonground.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (daemonground.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 50995-01; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 03:08:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (p54808A10.dip.t-dialin.net [84.128.138.16]) (using SSLv3 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.daemonground.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id D362E89260; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 03:08:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Sascha Holzleiter To: freebsd-stable@auscert.org.au In-Reply-To: <200410190013.i9J0DUiP026018@app.auscert.org.au> References: <200410190013.i9J0DUiP026018@app.auscert.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 03:08:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1098148119.5119.6.camel@dreamland.chief.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.1FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at daemonground.de cc: stable@freebsd.org 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 01:09:03 -0000 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