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[Jason Lerch]

On May 4, 2005, at 11:31 AM, Andrew Janke wrote:

> On 5/4/05, Shahin Zangenehpour <shahin@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>> I have been having trouble running Dot on my machine and I suspect it 
>> has to do with
>> upgrading my operating system from OS X Panther (10.3) to Tiger
>> (10.4). I keep getting the following message after trying to launch
>> Dot from an X-term subsequent to logging in:
>>
>> shadow 101% dot
>> fork process 6472031
>> shadow 102% X Error of failed request:  BadAtom (invalid Atom 
>> parameter)
>>    Major opcode of failed request:  18 (X_ChangeProperty)
>>    Atom id in failed request:  0xb5
>>    Serial number of failed request:  12
>>    Current serial number in output stream:  15
>>
>> Could anyone help me get back on track?
>
> At a wild guess this looks suspiciously like a Tcl/Tk error, it rings
> some bells anyhow.
>
> Perhaps go hunting for a new version of tcl/tk for Tiger?  tcl/tk was
> onthe apple developer website IIRC.

I doubt that tcl/tk is at fault since the job is launched from shadow. 
It thus has to do with how the X forwarding is being handled.

Jason

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