Here's a copy of a post I sent previously about Solaris and X server issues. Could be useful in this context.
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You know, as it so happens, I've been tracking down a solution to a similar problem I just started experiencing today. In my case though, I just upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and I'm trying to connect to a Solaris 10 box. I can connect, and certain applications work just fine, but a couple (in particular running a Java app withing Firefox 2.x), as soon as a type anything in a form field, Firefox crashes hard with XKEYBOARD resource errors. Based on what I've found today, the problem looks like it might be an X configuration error on the Solaris side, and it relates to Xorg versioning issues. Specifically, my Solaris 10 installation is using older versions of Xorg-related files; the new version of Ubunutu and, I gather, of the Cygwin/X server use new Xorg files. I'm in the process of applying a bunch of update patches to my Solaris box. In particular, patch 119059-45 was identified on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/292973. We'll see if it works. Anyway, don't know if this might be any help to you.
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All, I made the mistake of upgrading today and it has killed me. I am trying to bring a xwindow up from a Solaris 9 server to my Windows XP laptop running cygwin. So a few things out of the way: - Yes, I have read the FAQ. I am not setting XKeysymDB in any way and various fixes proposed in this an other posting areas don't work. I have followed everything in the FAQ to the letter to no avail. - I blew away my entire installation and reinstalled from scratch, so there are no stray startxwin.bat files around - I tried starting from the Start menu -> Cygwin/X, from startxwin.bat, etc - I patched the Solaris system I am touching but it didn't fix anything. I can get an xterm to come up and it types just fine. But when I bring my app up, typing kills the window resulting in a core dump on the Solaris server. There is nothing of note in any local logs (on my laptop). No errors, no nothing. I do get a core file on the Solaris system, but I can't tell if anything in it tells me anything. I understand that this is an ongoing problem, but is there anything I have missed?
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