On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > After upgrading to Xfree86-xserv to 4.3.0-47 using the cygwin setup, GNU > emacs crashes with the following messages: > > X protocol error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) on protocol request > 38 > > The crash occurs as soon as the mouse is moved *after* the RMB is pressed > down. It is systematic and can be repeated easily > > The crash occurs with both emacs 21.2.1 and 21.3.1. The OS is Red Hat 9. > > The problem does not sem to occur with other X applications on the same > tunnel. xemacs works fine. > > Surprisingly enough, the crash does not occur all the time. Within the same > session, emacs sometimes works just fine. When that is the case, it works > fine repeatedly. > > The crash if frequent though to prevent any reliable use of emacs, and once > it kicks in it is systematic. The conditions that trigger the problem are > unclear. Stopping and restarting the X server does not help. > > The problem does not seem to exist in 4.3.0-44, so downgrading to that > version seems to be a valid workaround.
This may be a problem with the new OpenSSH. You have to add X11ForwardTrusted to the .ssh/config file. See http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding bye ago -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004 - 6. und 7. März 2004 http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/linux/tag