Re: Another "typing kills my xterm" post...

[Scott Fordin <scott at ohelp dot com>]

Here's a copy of a post I sent previously about Solaris and X server
issues. Could be useful in this context.

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> You know, as it so happens, I've been tracking down a solution to a
> similar problem I just started experiencing today. In my case though,
> I just upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, and I'm trying to connect
> to a Solaris 10 box. I can connect, and certain applications work
> just fine, but a couple (in particular running a Java app withing
> Firefox 2.x), as soon as a type anything in a form field, Firefox
> crashes hard with XKEYBOARD resource errors. Based on what I've
> found today, the problem looks like it might be an X configuration
> error on the Solaris side, and it relates to Xorg versioning issues.
> Specifically, my Solaris 10 installation is using older versions
> of Xorg-related files; the new version of Ubunutu and, I gather, of
> the Cygwin/X server use new Xorg files.
>
> I'm in the process of applying a bunch of update patches to my
> Solaris box. In particular, patch 119059-45 was identified on
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/292973. We'll
> see if it works.
>
> Anyway, don't know if this might be any help to you.
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Hope this helps,

Scott

fourkidsco wrote:
> All,
>
> I made the mistake of upgrading today and it has killed me.
>
> I am trying to bring a xwindow up from a Solaris 9 server to my Windows XP
> laptop running cygwin.
>
> So a few things out of the way:
>
> - Yes, I have read the FAQ.  I am not setting XKeysymDB in any way and
> various fixes proposed in this an other posting areas don't work.  I have
> followed everything in the FAQ to the letter to no avail.
>
> - I blew away my entire installation and reinstalled from scratch, so there
> are no stray startxwin.bat files around
>
> - I tried starting from the Start menu -> Cygwin/X, from startxwin.bat, etc
>
> - I patched the Solaris system I am touching but it didn't fix anything.
>
> I can get an xterm to come up and it types just fine.  But when I bring my
> app up, typing kills the window resulting in a core dump on the Solaris
> server.
>
> There is nothing of note in any local logs (on my laptop).  No errors, no
> nothing.
>
> I do get a core file on the Solaris system, but I can't tell if anything in
> it tells me anything.
>
> I understand that this is an ongoing problem, but is there anything I have
> missed?


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