John,
We often see similar errors here using other Solaris X apps (e.g.
admintool), however, these (similar but not identical) X key binding errors
generally do not cause us too much grief.
In our case, however, we believe that the issue has more to do with the key
bindings (and therefore an issue between the X client libraries and the X
server).
Does anyone else have more definite information to add?
Regards,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Horne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 February 2001 12:01 am
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: SSH Mailing List
> Subject: SUMMARY: Openssh, solaris and vim
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Many thanks to those people who replied. There were several
> suggestions, but
> unfortunately none 'solved' the problem. I did find, however, that the
> problem stemmed from the use of X forwarding with openSSH. By
> disabling this
> vim worked fine. I have now disabled forwarding except where
> it is needed,
> and in that instance editing is not (generally) required. So
> the problem has
> been 'avoided' but not really 'solved'. I tried using truss
> to see what was
> going on, but have not been able to determine exactly where or why the
> messages occur. Oh well.
>
> Thanks go to:
> gabriel rosenkoetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> JULIAN, JOHN C. (AIT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Martin Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mark Luntzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> John.
>
> Original problem:
> On 05-Feb-01 at 10:08:55 John Horne wrote:
> > I am using Openssh (2.3.0p1) and am connecting to a Sun
> Solaris 8 system
> > which has vim 5.7 installed on it. When I connect from my
> work PC (redhat
> > 7), to the Sun and invoke 'view' I get the standard
> introductory screen -
> > "VIM -Vi Improved; version 5.7; by Bram Moolenaar et al."
> etc. No problem.
> > However, if I try and do this from the postmasters PC
> (redhat 7) and login
> > to the Sun system with the postmaster account, I then get
> the following as
> > soon as I invoke vim (or view):
> >
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Escape,_Key_Cancel" to type
> > VirtualBinding
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>Home,_Key_Begin" to type
> > VirtualBinding
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>F1,_Key_Help" to type
> VirtualBinding
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "Shift<Key>F10,_Key_Menu" to type
> > VirtualBinding
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>F10,Shift_Key_Menu" to type
> > VirtualBinding
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "<Key>KP_Enter,_Key_Execute" to type
> > VirtualBinding
> > Warning: Cannot convert string
> "Alt<Key>Return,Alt_Key_KP_Enter" to type
> > VirtualBinding
> >
> > I can see no difference between the postmaster account and
> my own; no
> > difference in any Xresource (Xdefault) settings, no
> difference in the
> > openssh config files; the same view/vim binary is used, etc etc.
> >
> > If I telnet to the sun then it all works okay (no message)
> regardless of
> > which account is used. So I can only assume that this is
> caused by openssh
> > somewhere. Anyone any ideas as to what is producing the
> above messages
> > (perhaps from something in /usr/dt on the Sun), but also
> why since the 2
> > accounts seem to be identical. The sshd_config file on the Sun has
> > X11Forwarding set true.
> >
>
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