From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Some apps are crashing with weird error messages when used remotely. Here's what xdvi produces: X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0x126 Serial number of failed request: 179 Current serial number in output stream: 181 Here's what xv produces: X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) Major Opcode: 3 Other apps (e.g., xterm) work OK. These problems never arose before updating tp FC3. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 openssh-3.9p1-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ssh to another computer, forwarding X11 2. start one of the affected applications 3. observe the error message Actual Results: Application starts up, then crashes. Expected Results: Application works. Additional info: Problem seems to be on the local box, not the remote one. The apps work fine when not forwarded.
This looks like a dup of bug 134425
Hardly recognizable as a dup of 134425 but seems to have same workaround: using ssh -Y. Why is there nothing in the release notes about this? And what is the config-file analogue of -Y? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134425 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.