X applications crashing under 5.3BETA7 and X.org

[Sascha Holzleiter]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:13 +1000, freebsd-stable at 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