On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 11:10 -0700, Karl Dalen wrote: > Hi, > > I've always run Thunderbird remotely by telneting from > my Ultra 20 M2 into a local sparc machine and running > Thunderbird (sparc) from there using the U-20 as the X display > and this has always worked fine. After I installed Nevada build > 89 on my U-20 I can no longer run Thunderbird remotely. > I get the following error message: > > " > % telnet 192.168.1.100 > sparc2 > setenv DISPLAY 192.168.1.101:0 > sparc2 > thunderbird > The program 'thunderbird-bin' received an X Window System error. > This probably reflects a bug in the program. > The error was 'BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)'. > (Details: serial 14 error_code 3 request_code 159 minor_code 2) > (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.) > " > > Don't know if this is a X related problem in the newer X server in > Nevada or a thunderbird problem. I get the same error regardless of > whether I use 'ssh -X' or telnet (and setting DISPLAY). I have tried an > old Thunderbird ver. 1.007 as well as the newest 2.0.0.14 and I get the > same error.
Solaris is security by default [1], I suggest you use 'ssh' instead. On your U-20, did you run 'xhost +' before 'ssh -X'? [1] http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/sbd/ -Halton. > > On my earlier OS on the same U-20 (Solaris 10, 11/06) > I did not have this problem. Logging in from a Linux machine to > the Sparc machine does not give this thunderbird error. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > /Karl D > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
