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Bug#234556: xlibs: many clients get BadLength error from X_ChangeProperty request



On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:32:16AM +0200, Emmanuel Fleury wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 11:13, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > 
> > You will need to recompile Xlib (libX11), the X server, or both with this
> > symbol defined to enable the debugging.
> 
> In a matter of fact, this was already what I did. I was already going
> deep in Xlib with gdb. I think, the bug seems to appear somewhere in the
> network exchange. The problem is that tcpdump doesn't seems to intercept
> any packet while this exchange is made (I tried tcpdump first, but my
> aim was to use ngrep to see what was inside the payload of these
> packets).

The client and server are running on different hosts when you try to do
this, right?

If not, the protocol traffic will pass through a Unix domain socket and
be invisible to tcpdump.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     One man's "magic" is another man's
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     engineering.  "Supernatural" is a
branden@debian.org                 |     null word.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Robert Heinlein

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