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[Jean-Francois Malouin]

* Jason Lerch <jason@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> [20050504 11:49]:
> 
> 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.

That would be my guess too. It's the X server/display on the Mac.
Which X have you installed?

jf

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