Bug 140924

Summary: Pasting content from remote X terminals cause "Bad Atom" error
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steffen Persvold <sp>
Component: xorg-x11Assignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Steffen Persvold 2004-11-26 14:35:28 UTC
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Description of problem:
When opening remote xterminals via ssh and trying to paste something
from that window to a local terminal (your local emacs window for
example), the remote xterminal dies with the following error :

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:  0x1d1
  Serial number of failed request:  190
  Current serial number in output stream:  192


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log into your local machine with 'ssh localhost'
2. start an xterm from that session 'xterm'
3. select something with the mouse, and try to paste that into a local
window (one that isn't started through ssh).
    

Actual Results:  The "remote" xterm session will die with the
following message :

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:  0x1d1
  Serial number of failed request:  190
  Current serial number in output stream:  192


Expected Results:  Selected content should have been pasted correctly
into local window

Additional info:

Comment 1 Sitsofe Wheeler 2004-11-26 23:41:45 UTC
Sounds like a potential dup of bug 140924 (hint does adding -Y to ssh
help?)

Comment 2 Sitsofe Wheeler 2004-11-26 23:42:22 UTC
Sorry that should have been bug 138617

Comment 3 Steffen Persvold 2004-11-27 15:40:25 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138617 ***

Comment 4 Preston Landers 2005-05-07 17:14:00 UTC
I was seeing this exact problem on Mac OS X version 10.4 (Tiger) but not on
10.3.9 (Panther). Adding the -Y parameter to ssh does seem to fix the problem
for me - although I got this warning:

Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.

Comment 5 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 19:07:17 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.