Re: netscape 4.8 crashed on Cygwin/X

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Where did you look for a solution for this?  I ask because this is 
brought up almost daily on our mailing list (today even) and is in our 
FAQ.  The problem has nothing to do with Cygwin/X and everything to do 
with OpenSSH and the solution is trivial.  The answer is at the 
following URL, but where were you looking without finding it (or did you 
even look before reporting it?):

http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-x-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding

Harold

dcyspm wrote:

> I tried to X11-forward a netscape 4.8 browser window
> using Cygwin/X from a Solaris 8 (recent patches
> applied) server and I got the following error:
>
> $ ./netscape
> X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid
> Pixmap or Window parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  73 (X_GetImage)
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x3a
>   Serial number of failed request:  78
>   Current serial number in output stream:  78
>
> and no browser window.  It worked under Exceed, so it
> does not appear to be a problem with the netscape
> binary.  I did not see any other instances of this
> problem on the list.
>
> I don't need a resolution, considering the quality of
> the Solaris implementation of netscape (and netscape's
> implementation of Mozilla) I'm happier forwarding the
> ports I need and using my local browser.  Just thought
> I'd bring it up, I'm not going to debug it (don't code
> much under Windows).
>
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