Just for the records: There seems to be a problem with SSH's X11 redirection. If i use the (not recommended)Bill Campbell wrote:
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
Hi list,
I rolled my own perl-tk script for adding/removing users on our cluster and it has been running fine for some years now.
But when i wanted to use it today, it died with:
My SWAG is that you've updated perl recently, but not updated the perl::Tk
modules. Running two versions of perl on the same machine is possible (we
do it under the OpenPKG.org packagement system all the time), but can
easily lead to problems like this.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~] # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl [the usual messages about unused variables] X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 18 (X_ChangeProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0x1a6 Serial number of failed request: 12 Current serial number in output stream: 15
I have no clue what this could be. Other X11 apps run fine. I am logged in via ssh -X.
Versions:
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8
p5-Tk-804.027
perl-5.6.1_15 Practical Extraction and Report Language
perl-5.8.4 Practical Extraction and Report Language
2 versions of perl? Is this ok?
Does anyone have an idea?
Regards, Heinrich
Problem solved: It was not the perl upgrade, it is the X server which is to blame. I recently upgraded the Linux installation on my workstation and there seems to be a problem with xfree there. I did not get suspicious until i tried running the script under Linux and got exactly the same error message. Moving to another workstation with a different version of xfree solved the problem.
linuxhost $ xhost +freebsdhost ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] freebsdhost # export DISPLAY=linuxhost:0 freebsdhost # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl
to have my perlTk script displaying on my Linux workstation, it works. If i login with
linuxhost $ ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] freebsdhost # usrmgr/usrmgr.pl
i get the above error.
This is of course a problem with Linux's ssh client - i am posting this only in case someone else encounters this problem.
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