Another couple of data points: I don't need so many xterms to reproduce the problem. I can just ssh from baldur (in a non-xterm window) to elmak, then run a single xterm from there, and I see the same symptom.
If I run rxvt rather than xterm, I get: rxvt: XError: Request: 18 . 0, Error: 5 emacs (in X mode) gives me a segmentation fault. xedit gives me the same error as xterm. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst> San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://www.sdsc.edu/~kst> Schroedinger does Shakespeare: "To be *and* not to be"