X: attempt to access private resource?
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Tue May 6 22:43:59 UTC 2008
2008/5/6 Tom Horsley <tom.horsley at att.net>:
> Is this an X bug, an ssh bug, or what?
>
> I often ssh with X11 forwarding into other systems, and
> with depressing regularity I get X errors the first time
> I run gtk apps like gedit, synaptic, etc:
>
> The program 'synaptic' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied)'.
> (Details: serial 442 error_code 10 request_code 148 minor_code 5)
> (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.)
>
> If I immediately try to run the exact same app a second time, it
> works perfectly.
>
> Anyone seen anything like this? Anyone know what is going on?
>
> My host system I am running ssh from is always a fedora 8 system
> because that is what is on my desktops, so I can't say if it
> happens with other kinds of hosts or not.
>
> Sometimes I don't get that error right away, but the app will come
> up and things like icons will be missing, then I'll get a similar
> error a little later (perhaps when trying to popup some dialog).
>
> Should I be trying ssh -Y instead of ssh -X (which my fingers type
> from reflex)? I have to say I have no idea what the man page is
> talking about with the difference between -X and -Y.
>
This looks like:
http://openssh.com/faq.html#3.13
If that doesn't solve your issue, then file a bug.
HTH,
Jonathan.
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