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 samba sdl session slang soap speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcpd 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"
try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X
what if you use ssh -Y ?
yes, now it works. thanx.