Re: X: attempt to access private resource?

["Jonathan Underwood" <jonathan underwood gmail com>]

2008/5/6 Tom Horsley <tom horsley 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.