problems running gtk apps remotely

spuzzzzzzz · 10-08-2004, 12:04 AM

I am having trouble running gtk apps over ssh. Other programs run fine, but gtk ones always crash with an error. Gtk is versions 1.2.10 and 2.4.9, but I had the same problems with 2.4.1. I'm running gentoo with kernel 2.6.8.1-ck-r7 (on all machines). X is x.org version 6.8 on the server (6.7 on the machines I'm sshing too, but I don't think that matters). My computer is an opteron. The computers I'm sshing to are athlon-xps
gaim:

Code:

The program 'gaim' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 175 error_code 3 request_code 2 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

xmms loads but crashes when I try to drag the window:

Code:

Gdk-ERROR **: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  serial 1607 error_code 3 request_code 38 minor_code 0
Gdk-ERROR **: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)
  serial 1608 error_code 10 request_code 102 minor_code 0

gkrellm2:

Code:

The program 'gkrellm2' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)'.
  (Details: serial 1158 error_code 5 request_code 20 minor_code 0)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

gmplayer:

Code:

Xlib:  extension "XFree86-VidModeExtension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
X11 error: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
Aborted

xload runs, oowriter runs, etc. All the programs work when I walk over to the other computer and run them locally. It just seems to be a problem with gtk programs over ssh. Any suggestions? Something wrong with my configuration?

jtshaw · 10-10-2004, 09:56 AM

Bump.....

I'm getting the same type of issue when I try and run gvim over ssh w/ xforwarding.

Code:

X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  20 (X_GetProperty)
  Atom id in failed request:  0x160
  Serial number of failed request:  1103
  Current serial number in output stream:  1103

Anyone have any ideas? Both have the xorg-x11 libraries, however the client computer I am using is currently running xorg 6.8.0 while the server has xorg 6.7.0. I've not found any incompatiblities that I think would lead to this kind of error though... if I scp the executable over and run it locally it runs just fine.

jtshaw · 10-11-2004, 03:05 PM

Alright... use the -Y switch instead of the -X switch or put ForwardX11Trusted=yes in your ssh_conf file to fix this issue.

spuzzzzzzz · 10-11-2004, 04:13 PM

yep, that seems to work. Thanks

puk · 02-05-2005, 01:05 PM

i have a similar problem

i use slackware10 on one pc -> call it silver(ip: 192.168.1.5).

Some days ago i connected from a very slow pc, call it suse(ip: 192.168.1.3), via ssh to silver
and ran some apps remotely to get better performance.

than i updated a lot of files on silver.
some packages where updated by "packetmanager" (e.g. gtk2-2.4.1* to gtk+2.6.1* and some libs and other things)
and some packages get renewed by "make".

after renewing, the gtk-apps won't run remotely now, on suse(SuSE8.1)
-> but on an old PentiumI(with Slackware10), everything works fine.

googling doesn't help. So i "tried and errored".
i installed a new ssh on suse.

Code:

cd */zlib*
configure --prefix=/opt/zlib
make && make install

cd */openssl*
./config --prefix=/opt/openssl
make && make install

cd */openssh*
./configure --prefix=/opt/openssh --with-zlib=/opt/zlib --with-ssl-dir=/opt/openssl
make && make install

same error like before:

Code:

puk@suse:~> /opt/openssh/bin/ssh -Y puk@192.168.1.5
puk@silver:~$ export DISPLAY=192.168.1.3:0.0
puk@silver:~$ gnome-terminal
The program 'gnome-terminal' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadImplementation (server does not implement operation)'.
  (Details: serial 718 error_code 17 request_code 153 minor_code 10)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
   option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)
puk@silver:~$

i also put

Code:

ForwardX11Trusted yes

into /opt/openssh/etc/ssh_config

hope this post doesn't confuse you too much.

can anyone help me out?

PLEASE :-)

puk · 02-05-2005, 02:06 PM

ok i found a thread/bugreport
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-d.../msg00109.html

possible that this could be the failure!?! not sure.

puk · 02-06-2005, 09:17 AM

the problem was the old XFree86-4.?.? which comes with that trashy SuSE Linux!
installing an Xorg-cvs(anno 2004-12-14) gives me support for remote gtk-2.6 on this damn SuSE8.1

i used this old cvs-version, because it's the onliest Xserver i ever got to run :-)
(-: bad english?!)

EdW · 02-29-2008, 08:46 PM

FWIW gaim, synaptic and eclipse all gave me BadWindow. Only seamonkey
worked when using ssh -X. But your ssh -Y works!

thanks
Ed