Re: MC vs. X.org X11.

[Ivo Särak <ivo vendomar ee>]

        Hello,

On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 00:02 +0300, Doncho N. Gunchev wrote:
> On 2004-07-15 (Thursday) 23:01, Ivo SÃrak wrote:
> >     Hello,
> >
> >     Recently my Fedora Core 2 box came down with an issue what in my
> > opinion has roots in X.org X11 implementation, but Fedora developers are
> > blaming MC:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125698
> >
> > Namely there is no way to use MC on remote host - it will crash out with
> > "X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> > Major opcode of failed request: 38 (X_QueryPointer)"
>
>     Strange, I can not reproduce this bug, did you upgrade your system?
> What versions of kde/mc/xorg do you have? I tryed FC2 -> FC2, FC1 -> FC2
> FC1 -> RH9 -> FC2 and some other combinations, but never got this error.
> I remember mc was not working at all with FC2-t2 or so... One of my FC2
> machines was fully updated till today, the other was not.

I have updated FC2 to latest available packages for it. The issue came
with some updates I made, but I do not recall what.

[ivo sarmax ivo]$ rpm -q kdebase
kdebase-3.2.3-1
[ivo sarmax ivo]$ rpm -q xorg-x11
xorg-x11-6.7.0-6
[ivo sarmax ivo]$

MC on the other end over FC1:
[ivo haskaa ivo]$ rpm -q mc
mc-4.6.0-14.10
[ivo haskaa ivo]$

Does the SSH have it's part in this issue?
SSH on FC2:
[ivo sarmax ivo]$ rpm -q openssh
openssh-3.8.1p1-4
[ivo sarmax ivo]$

SSH server on FC1 side:
[ivo haskaa ivo]$ rpm -q openssh-server
openssh-server-3.6.1p2-19
[ivo haskaa ivo]$


> > Fedora Core developers are ignoring the fact that other applications
> > throw the very same error and the MC on the other end of SSH link is
> > being run under Fedora Core 1/RedHat Linux 9 what have never had this
> > issue (if these are faulty then why it is revealing itself now, not
> > before?).
>
>     Sometimes they really can not react as fast as we would like to...,
> I waited more than 3 months for a simple problem I had the fix for - 2
> lines in one cron job - updatedb.
>
> > I would like to get some input from MC developers as I have feeling that
> > my arguments are not enough to convince them.
>
>     I'm not an mc developer, but I fear I can't live without mc :)

Same here...

> >     Regards,
> > Ivo Sarak.
>     Can you also describe your localization? I'm from Bulgaria, but I
> use LANG='en_EN.UTF-8'. I ask because this can be the long-standing
> problem with UTF8 support so please try to reproduce the problem with 
> http://www.ottolander.nl/opensource/srpms/fc1/mc-4.6.0-14.10n.src.rpm
> (download it, rpmbuild --rebuild mc-4.6.0-14.10n.src.rpm... ask if you
> need help on this, I will compile it for you).

The crashing MC is not on FC2, but older MC's over FC1 are not working
(somehow MC 4.6.0 over FreeBSD is still working).


Local FC2:
[ivo sarmax ivo]$ echo $LANG
en_US.UTF-8

Remote end FC1:
[ivo haskaa ivo]$ echo $LANG
en_US


I'll try to get FC1 MC updated, but why does other appÃications are
giving sunukar errors?

        Regards,
Ivo Sarak.