This is not necessarily true. Some programs only work in trusted
xforwarding mode (-Y) where simple programs like xcalc and xterm work fine
with an untrusted one also (-X).
>From the error message it looks like the OSCAR gui is probably one of those
programs that likes the -Y flag.
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Greenseid, Joseph M. <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you just want to test an X connection over ssh, try to run xcalc or
> something else that has a GUI. If you run xcalc and the calculator pops up,
> you're forwarding X properly.
>
> --Joe
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul
> Greidanus
> Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 12:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] [Oscar-users] driving me crazy!!!
>
>
>
> Is there any way to test for this before attempting to run OSCAR?
>
> On 30-Jul-08, at 6:01 PM, Abhishek K wrote:
>
> > Arrgh!
> >
> > If you are driving the OSCAR installation over SSH, you might want
> > to pass -Y flag to ssh to make sure X11 connection is forwarded
> > properly.
> > So use ssh -Y <oscar_server> and see if the GUI comes up.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- Abhishek
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Joseph Norris
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I did a start_over and then an install_cluster eth1 and I keep getting
> > an error:
> >
> > X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid atom parameter)........
> > and
> > the gui will not come up.
> >
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