When I connect from a Gentoo machine to another machine (Gentoo, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 3) and start emacs on the remote machine, emacs crashes as soon as I mark a region with the mouse, or if I do it with the keyboard, as soon as I copy or cut the region. It seems to be placing things on the X clipboard (or whatever it is called) which causes the problem. The problem also appears if I use ssh to connect to the local machine. There are no problems connecting between the other involved machine machines and running emacs. The problem appears if and only if the machine running the display is a Gentoo Linux, and no matter what distribution the remote machine is running. Also, connecting from a Fedora to the Gentoo and onto another Fedora does not cause the problem. When crashing, emacs gives the following error: [noether] ~>emacs X protocol error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) on protocol request 18 xemacs gives a similar error, but does not crash: [noether] ~>xemacs Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion xemacs: X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0x123 Serial number of failed request: 1796 Current serial number in output stream: 1797 Since one of the main thing I do with this computer is connecting to my work place's computers using ssh, and working on those, the problem is very serious for me. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ssh some.other.machine (with X forwarding enabled in ssh_config and sshd_config). 2. emacs somefile 3. Mark something with the mouse Actual Results: Emacs crashes with the error X protocol error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) on protocol request 18 Expected Results: The region should be marked. E04/Week9> esearch xorg [ Results for search key : xorg ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * x11-base/xorg-x11 Latest version available: 6.8.0-r1 Latest version installed: 6.8.0-r1 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage: http://freedesktop.org/XOrg Description: An X11 implementation maintained by the X.Org Foundation E04/Week9> esearch openssh [ Results for search key : openssh ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-misc/openssh Latest version available: 3.8.1_p1-r1 Latest version installed: 3.8.1_p1-r1 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage: http://www.openssh.com/ Description: Port of OpenBSD's free SSH release E04/Week9> esearch emacs [ Results for search key : emacs ] [ Applications found : 18 ] [ ... ] * app-editors/emacs Latest version available: 21.3-r3 Latest version installed: 21.3-r3 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs Description: An incredibly powerful, extensible text editor E04/Week9> emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.00GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.rhnet.is/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d acpi alsa arts atlas avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga dvd emacs encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mule ncurses netcdf nls nptl oggvobis oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp ppds python qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype trusted usb wxwindows x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
A Google search actually helped (http://www.dbforums.com/t1054531.html). If ssh is called with -Y or "ForwardX11Trusted yes" set in ssh_config, the problem goes away. Suggested action, before closing this bug: Add the following two lines to /etc/ssh/ssh_config (in the net-misc/openssh package), just under the "# ForwardX11 no" line: # ForwardX11Trusted no # Some programs, for example emacs, require this to be set to yes to work over an ssh tunnel.
*** Bug 85828 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 79343 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
yes, it is the -X / -Y Trusted-hosts issue - maybe a einfo/info-in-sshd.conf about the 'ForwardX11Trusted' option and the bug is done
Re-assign.
no point in duplicating the info in the manpage
