[indiana-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Problem with b109 and ssh -X (and scim?)]

[Rob McMahon]

Oops, I failed to send this to the list.

William wrote:
> I suppose your action and env is, locale machine: Opensolaris build_109,
> remote machine is Solaris10.
> then, I run 
> "ssh -X S10_machine /usr/openwin/bin/xterm" on Opensoalris_b109.
>   
Thanks for looking at this.  Correct.  I'm essentially in the 
en_GB.UTF-8 locale.  Here is my complete environment:

DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
_AST_FEATURES=UNIVERSE - att
XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.gdm59L8QU
G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=yes
SESSIONTYPE=1
GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local
DTSTARTIMS=False
LOGNAME=cudcv
GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/unit/cu/dcv/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
GTK_MODULES=gail:atk-bridge
USERNAME=cudcv
PATH=/home/unit/cu/dcv/bin/i86pc:/home/unit/cu/dcv/bin:/usr/local/gnu/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/lang/bin:/usr/local/KDE/bin:/usr/local/X11/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/ucb:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/etc:/etc:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/etc:/usr/local/gnu/sbin:/opt/csw/bin:/usr/cluster/bin:/usr/5bin:/usr/local/bin/pbm
GNOME_KEYRING_PID=1187

TERM=xterm
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-eDaiAX/ssh
_=/usr/bin/gnome-session
PWD=/home/unit/cu/dcv
USER=cudcv
WINDOWID=29360177
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/
COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/tmp/dbus-Ckzq6ofJpb,guid=7f1b5da6a79e1d07e444578e49c21ad3
GDMSESSION=gnome
DISPLAY=:0.0
SHELL=/usr/local/bin/tcsh
GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-eDaiAX/socket
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
GTK_IM_MODULE=iiim
GDM_LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SESSION_MANAGER=local/wonky:/tmp/.ICE-unix/1150
A__z="*SHLVL
ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/var/tmp/orbit-cudcv
LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale,UTF-8
HOME=/home/unit/cu/dcv
SHLVL=2
HOSTTYPE=i86pc
VENDOR=sun
OSTYPE=solaris
MACHTYPE=i386
GROUP=cu
HOST=wonky
ENSCRIPT=G2rE -U2 -p-
LC_CTYPE=iso_8859_1
LESS=-Ri
LESSCHARSET=latin1
LPDEST=ghetto
PAGER=less
PRINTER=ghetto
VERSION_CONTROL=t
MANPATH=/usr/local/gnu/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/lang/man:/usr/local/X11/man:/usr/dt/man:/usr/openwin/man:/usr/man:
RSYNC_RSH=ssh -x
LEVEL=>

>   
>> "ssh -X machine /usr/openwin/bin/xterm" to a Solaris
>> 10 machine has an 
>> extra line at the bottom.  Originally this said
>> "[English / European]" 
>> and left-clicking on it produced a drop-down menu of
>> other character 
>> sets.  I tried uninstalling SUNWscim & SUNWscim-m17n,
>> and now this line 
>> is still there but blank.  Trying to enter a
>> character into the xterm 
>> kills the xterm:
>>
>>  > ssh -X fuchsia /usr/openwin/bin/xterm
>> ont missing: KSC5601.1992-3 for Window
>> font missing: TIS620.2533-0 for Window
>> font missing: ISO8859-6 for Window
>> font missing: ISO8859-8 for Window
>> font missing: SUN.UNICODE.INDIA-0 for Window
>>     
>
> I can also see these message, the reason is S10 and Opensolaris have different libX11. Opensoalaris already move to X.org. So, the fonts name system have been changed. please try remote OpenSolaris machine.
>
>
>   
>> [press key in xterm]
>> xterm:  warning, error event received:
>> X Error of failed request:  BadAlloc (insufficient
>> resources for operation)
>>   Major opcode of failed request:  150 (XKEYBOARD)
>> Minor opcode of failed request:  16
>> (XkbSetNamedIndicator)
>>   Serial number of failed request:  445
>> Current serial number in output stream:  456
>> Exit 83
>>     


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