RHEL6 X11 clients cannot display to RHEL5 X11 server of different architecture
Issue
- Emacs, Firefox, and other gtk applications running on a RHEL 6 ppc64 system fail with this error when trying to display to a RHEL 5 x86_64 console:
Gdk-ERROR **: The program 'emacs' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)'.
(Details: serial 46 error_code 2 request_code 154 minor_code 4)
(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.)
aborting...
Fatal error (6)Aborted (core dumped)
Environment
- X11 Server (console): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
- X11 Client (application): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
- Server and Client are different architectures where one system is big-endian (e.g., ppc64) and the other system is little-endian (e.g., x86 and x86_64)
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