Bug#236998: xfree86: I see this too

[Thue Janus Kristensen <thue@diku.dk>]

That worked, thanks!

I don't know if it is something you can do on the X11 end, but it 
would be very usefull if it could give a more informative error 
message.

Thanks
-Thue

On Tuesday 09 March 2004 15:31, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On 09.03.2004   11:06 Thue Janus Kristensen wrote:
> > Package: xfree86
> > Severity: normal
> > Followup-For: Bug #236998
> >
> >
> > I see this problem too when displaying emacs windows from a
> > debian woody (X version 4.1.0-16woody3) on my unstable
> > system (4.3.0-5). I have a nvidia gfx card, using the xfree
> > open source driver.
> >
> > I can 100% reproducibly produce a crash with the following
> > steps: -Start emacs from woody box, displayed on unstable
> > box -In scratch buffer, set a mark (CTRL-space) in top left
> > corner. -Go to buttom right corner and push (META-w).
> > -Emacs crashes with the following error:
> >
> > thue@thue:~$ X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window
> > parameter) on protocol request 25
> >
> > [2]+  Exit 70                 emacs
> >
> > That is not the only way it crashes, it is generelly hard to
> > keep it working for 5 minuttes. It would be nice if this was
> > fixed :).
>
> what do you mean by 'Start emacs from woody box, displayed on
> unstable box' ?
>
> do you log into the woody box with ssh?
> When you using ssh-3.8p1, lease try the following:
>
> (quoted from Bug#236936, Colin Watson)
> Starting with 3.8, you need to set ForwardX11Trusted if you
> want to affect other X clients. From ssh_config(5):
>
>       ForwardX11Trusted
>               If the this option is set to ``yes'' then remote
> X11 clients will have full access to the original X11 dis-
> play.  If this option is set to ``no'' then remote X11 clients
> will be considered untrusted and prevented from stealing or
> tampering with data belonging to trusted X11 clients.
>
>               The default is ``no''.
> /quote
>
> hth.
> Christian