X applications crashing under 5.3BETA7 and X.org

[Rob]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:26:40AM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
>>Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>s/-Y/-X/
>
> No, he meant -Y and that is indeed correct.

Sorry, I verified this on a my 4-Stable PC and the -Y option was not
there. It's there only with 5.3.

Bottom line is: with 5.3 being inbetween Current and Stable, and 6 being
the HEAD, I'm always confused what's discussed on Stable and Current
mailinglists :).

Cheers,
Rob.