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Re: Security Update from MAC breaks ssh -X

To: Starr Hazard <hazards@musc.edu>
Subject: Re: Security Update from MAC breaks ssh -X
From: Marc Aurele La France <tsi@ualberta.ca>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:37:53 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Starr Hazard wrote:

> Folks,

> This morning I downloaded and installed a security update for my MAC G5. I
> am running MAC OSX 10.3.9.

> Friday March 16 I was able to

> ssh -X me@targetcpu

> and launch my application

> this morning March 19 I get this error:

> X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
>  Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
>  Atom id in failed request:  0x25
>  Serial number of failed request:  309
>  Current serial number in output stream:  309

> I can get an xclock window to open but the GUI for my application is not
> able to launch.

> I can work around this by setting xhost on the mac, ssh to remote
> machine, setenv DISPLAY and launching the application.

> Can you suggest some reasons why this current fix broke my

> ssh -X trick?

Try `ssh -Y` instead.

Marc.

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