hello,
I have one of these rare IntelliStation 185s, GXT4500P, AIX 6.1.
When I ssh to a Linux box and run Firefox 102.13.0esr, I get X errors:
...
'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
(Details: serial 138 error_code 2 request_code 129 (SHAPE)
minor_code 2)
What's wrong with these "modern" X servers on AIX 6.1/7.1
in contrast to the older ones?
Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kraemer@gsi.de> wrote:
hello,
I have one of these rare IntelliStation 185s, GXT4500P, AIX 6.1.
When I ssh to a Linux box and run Firefox 102.13.0esr, I get X errors:
...
'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
(Details: serial 138 error_code 2 request_code 129 (SHAPE)
minor_code 2)
I would first try 'firefox -no-remote' on Linux.
Maybe this could help by trying other options.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions#Linux
If that fails, if possible, try compiling a newer OpenSSH
on AIX replacing what is there. Could be the ssh on AIX
is rather old.
Try some other switches.
<snip>
What's wrong with these "modern" X servers on AIX 6.1/7.1
in contrast to the older ones?
Personally I would blame Linux and freedesktop.org
with them "fixing X".
John McCue wrote:<snip>
Personally I would blame Linux and freedesktop.org
with them "fixing X".
me too, but just blaming doesn't solve the problem.
Moreover, the same Ff works with the AIX 5.3 X server which is from 2009.
So I'm inclined to blame IBM for having built in some showstopper in their later X servers (from 2021 on AIX 7.1).
Michael Kraemer @ home <M.Kraemer@gsi.de> wrote:
hello,
I have one of these rare IntelliStation 185s, GXT4500P, AIX 6.1.
When I ssh to a Linux box and run Firefox 102.13.0esr, I get X errors:
...
'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
(Details: serial 138 error_code 2 request_code 129 (SHAPE)
minor_code 2)
I would first try 'firefox -no-remote' on Linux.
Maybe this could help by trying other options.
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/CommandLineOptions#Linux
If that fails, if possible, try compiling a newer OpenSSH
on AIX replacing what is there. Could be the ssh on AIX
is rather old.
Try some other switches.
<snip>
What's wrong with these "modern" X servers on AIX 6.1/7.1
in contrast to the older ones?
Personally I would blame Linux and freedesktop.org
with them "fixing X".
Good Luck
Request code 2 is ShapeMask, which generates a Value error should the
client produce an invalid destKind. Recent versions of Firefox exploit
the ``input region'', which is most likely absent from the AIX X server.
Given ``Linux desktop'' developers' penchant for neglecting backwards compatibility or interoperability concerns,
I'd chalk the problem up to
Firefox unconditionally modifying the input region without first
verifying that the Shape extension is new enough to support it.
Po Lu wrote:
Request code 2 is ShapeMask, which generates a Value error should the
client produce an invalid destKind. Recent versions of Firefox exploit
the ``input region'', which is most likely absent from the AIX X server.
Given ``Linux desktop'' developers' penchant for neglecting
backwards
compatibility or interoperability concerns,
I'd subscribe that immediately ...
I'd chalk the problem up to
Firefox unconditionally modifying the input region without first
verifying that the Shape extension is new enough to support it.
... but unfortunately older versions of the X server (AIX 5.3)
don't show this problem.
Is there something extra to configure on 6.1 and 7.1?
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