xterm crashes consistently

[Darren Tucker]

Peter Gordon wrote:
> I am running Fedora 3 on a Dell 600. The version of OpenSSH is
> OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
[...]
> The terminal comes up and I can work with it - without the mouse.
> If I left click the mouse and highlight any text in the xterm,  I get a
> fatal error and the xterm closes. The error is consistent and happens
> every time.
> 
> xterm
> xterm:  warning, error event received:
> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>   Atom id in failed request:  0x185
>   Serial number of failed request:  218
>   Current serial number in output stream:  220

http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#3.13

3.13 - I upgraded to OpenSSH 3.8 and some X11 programs stopped working.

As documented in the 3.8 release notes, ssh will now use untrusted X11 
cookies by default. The previous behaviour can be restored by setting 
ForwardX11Trusted yes in ssh_config.

Possible symptoms include:
BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)

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