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


Reply via email to