x11 forwarding problem on solaris

[Albert Chin]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:53:18PM +1000, Darren Tucker wrote:
> Albert Chin wrote:
> >I'm running OpenSSH 3.8.1p1 client/server and see a similar problem. We
> >upgraded Ethereal (network protocol analyzer) from 0.10.2 to 0.10.5
> >and now get the following when trying to save a protocol trace:
> >  Gdk-ERROR **: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> >  serial 12171 error_code 3 request_code 15 minor_code 0
> >
> >This is with Ethereal built against GTK+ 1.2.10. Building Ethereal
> >against GTK+ 2.4.4 works fine.
> >
> >Setting "ForwardX11Trusted yes" in ssh_config doesn't help.
> 
> That's odd, I would have thought that would fix it.  That was the 
> client's ssh_config?  Does "ssh -o ForwardX11Trusted=yes yourserver" do 
> the same thing?

Yes, it does the same thing. I don't think the problem has anything to
do with 3.8.1 though as it was broken with a 3.7p1 server as well
(with 3.6 client).

> You can also try "X11UseLocalhost no" in the server's sshd_config (you 
> will need to restart sshd).

Tested on RHEL 2.1 and saw the same problem. But, Ethereal does come
up. It's just when trying to save the capture from the GUI that we run
into the problem.

I think we'll just ditch the GTK+ 1.2 Ethereal build in favor of the
GTK+ 2.4.4 build. It's probably a local problem as I don't see posts
to the Ethereal list complaining. There was one report but ldconfig
fixed it for them (strange solution).

-- 
albert chin (china at thewrittenword.com)