Hi, I am trying to open an X session over a LAN, the connection via ssh works fine however I get an error message when I try to open an X application on the remote machine
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. Last login: Wed Nov 5 10:29:41 2008 from 192.168.0.6 NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006 Welcome to NetBSD! $ xclock -d debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 3 win 65536 max 16384 debug1: client_request_x11: request from ::1 65447 debug1: channel 1: new [x11] debug1: confirm x11 X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 55 (X_CreateGC) Resource id in failed request: 0x5c Serial number of failed request: 1 Current serial number in output stream: 3 debug1: channel 1: FORCE input drain debug1: channel 1: free: x11, nchannels 2 The client machine, 192.168.0.6 has the following version of X installed X -version X.Org X Server 1.4.0 Release Date: 5 September 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE i386 Current Operating System: FreeBSD localhost 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 24 09:27:22 EST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNELIPFW i386 Build Date: 01 April 2008 04:41:15PM Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present The server machine, 192.168.0.3 has this installed $ X -version XFree86 Version 4.5.0 Release Date: 16 March 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System:NetBSD/i386 3.0.1 - The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. Current Operating System: NetBSD paxpc1.localhost.net 3.0.1 NetBSD 3.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul 13 23:43:47 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-1-RELEASE/i386/200607131826Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-3-0-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386 Build Date: 13 July 2006 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Command line: X -version Searching the error messages was not very helpful, it seemed like X could give out these messages for quite a number of reasons none of the available posts seemed to fit my problem. My windows manager is xmonad-0.7_2 Any clues? Thanks in advance, Alasdair
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