emacs crashes: X protocol error: BadWindow

[Andrew B. Young]

Alexander Dalloz wrote:

>Am Do, den 18.11.2004 schrieb Satish Balay um 20:11:
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>>>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
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>In addition the OpenSSH FAQ:
>
>3.13 - I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.8 and some X11 programs stopped working.
>As documented in the 3.8 release notes, ssh will now use untrusted X11
>cookies by default. The previous behaviour can be restored by setting
>ForwardX11Trusted yes in ssh_config.
>
>Possible symptoms include:
>BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
>BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
>X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)
>
>Alexander
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Thanks Satish and Alexander.  That fixed it.  I figured out that I 
needed the
-X from the release notes when I didn't even get a window.  But not knowing
anything about trusted/untrusted X11 cookies I didn't think to try the 
-Y.  I'll have
to read up.

Andrew