Bug 71281 – mc crashed with X11 forwarding support

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Aben Siatris 2004-11-15 06:07:29 UTC]

when i use X11 forwarding enabled in /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config, than mc crashed on remote login.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.mc
2.enter any directory
Actual Results:  
X error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 38 (X_QueryPointer)
Resource id in failed request: 0x8e
Serial number of failed request: 6
Current serial number in output stream: 6


Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,
2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
distcc 2.16 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
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/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer
-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/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 /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-mcpu=pentium4 -march=pentium4 -msse -msse2 -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer
-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fforce-addr -falign-functions=4
-fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache digest distlocks prelink sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ http://gentoo.inode.at/
http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo http://212.219.247
.18/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aalib acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avantgo avi berkdb bitmap-fonts
bluetooth bootsplash cdparanoa cdr chroot crypt cups curl dba debug directfb
divix4linux divx4linux doc dvb dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif f77 fam fastcgi
fax fbcon flac flash foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2
iconv icq imagemagick imap imlib innodb jack java javascript jpeg jpeg2k junit
kde lcd ldaplibg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mime mmx mmx2 motif mozilla
mpeg mysql mythtv nas ncurses network nls nptl nvidia oci8 odbc oggvorbis openal
opengl pam pda pdflib perl png postgres povray python qt quicktime readline rtc
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threads tiff timidity truetype unicode usb v4l v4l2 wifi x86 xine xml xml2 xmms
xv xvid zlib linguas_de linguas_ru linguas_sk linguas_cz linguas_cs linguas_en"

[Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-11-29 04:44:32 UTC]

try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X

[Comment 2 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) 2004-12-29 10:26:00 UTC]

what if you use ssh -Y ?

[Comment 3 Aben Siatris 2005-01-10 06:17:40 UTC]

yes, now it works.
thanx.