emacs crashes: X protocol error: BadWindow

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andrew B. Young wrote:

> I am ssh'ing into a Fedora Core 2 box (that is not up2date) from an
> up2date Fedora Core 3 box and running emacs, displayed back on my FC3
> box.  When I depress the left mouse button AND then move the mouse to
> select some text, emacs crashes.  The terminal has the error--
> 
> [younga at mfg Test]$ emacs
> X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request 38
> [younga at mfg Test]$
> 
> Anybody seen this?  What more information should I gather (and how) to
> diagnose the problem?

Read the 'ssh' part of the release-notes in FC3
(file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html)

quick summary: use 'ssh -Y'

Satish