Miscellaneous questions

1.
Why is it that whenever I invoke the following command:

  Works -> Tools -> Preferences -> Font -> Select Font

I get an error, with the message

  Illegal junk found in "7l" from 0 to 2, by
  parse-integer.

And I am presented with a single restart

  (abort) Return to event loop

What went wrong? Is it my X configuration?


2.
Has anybody experienced running LispWorks from the network?

I'm trying to run LispWorks from an X tunnel via SSH.  It seems
to load well, but then I use some of the tools, like the Window
Browser, I get a dialog box saying something like the following:

----------------------------------------------------------------------
X ERROR
  Display: #<X-LIBRARY:DISPLAY "localhost:10.0" = #x0817E800>
  Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request: 59 (X_SetClipRectangles)
  ResourceID: 0x1A00281 (27263617)
----------------------------------------------------------------------

With only an OK button. Now when I click that button, another window
with the same contents appear, and so on. And the only way (so far)
that I know to stop it is to kill LispWorks altogether.

Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I
missed? It works well however, when ran locally.

Thanks in advance. :-)


-- 
Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:03:53PM +0800, Rommel Martinez wrote:
> 2.
> Has anybody experienced running LispWorks from the network?
> 
> I'm trying to run LispWorks from an X tunnel via SSH.  It seems
> to load well, but then I use some of the tools, like the Window
> Browser, I get a dialog box saying something like the following:
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> X ERROR
>   Display: #<X-LIBRARY:DISPLAY "localhost:10.0" = #x0817E800>
>   Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request: 59 (X_SetClipRectangles)
>   ResourceID: 0x1A00281 (27263617)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> With only an OK button. Now when I click that button, another window
> with the same contents appear, and so on. And the only way (so far)
> that I know to stop it is to kill LispWorks altogether.
> 
> Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I
> missed? It works well however, when ran locally.

I have not tried Lispworks over ssh, but I have had problems running
some programs over ssh using ssh's dedicated X forwarding.  For some
programs, you can workaround by forwarding X using normal ssh port
forwarding, e.g.

  % ssh -R 6001:localhost:6000 host
  % export DISPLAY=localhost:1
  % your_program

I don't know why this works.  :(

And, of course, this may or may not help with Lispworks.

-- Larry

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:03:53 +0800, "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anybody experienced running LispWorks from the network?

Works fine for me.

> I'm trying to run LispWorks from an X tunnel via SSH.  It seems to
> load well, but then I use some of the tools, like the Window
> Browser, I get a dialog box saying something like the following:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> X ERROR
>   Display: #<X-LIBRARY:DISPLAY "localhost:10.0" = #x0817E800>
>   Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request: 59 (X_SetClipRectangles)
>   ResourceID: 0x1A00281 (27263617)
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> With only an OK button. Now when I click that button, another window
> with the same contents appear, and so on. And the only way (so far)
> that I know to stop it is to kill LispWorks altogether.
>
> Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I missed?
> It works well however, when ran locally.

Looks like an X/ssh problem.  You should make sure that forwarding of
X11 packets is enabled on both the client and the server side.

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:03:53 +0800, "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Has anybody experienced running LispWorks from the network?
>
>  Works fine for me.
>
>
>  > I'm trying to run LispWorks from an X tunnel via SSH.  It seems to
>  > load well, but then I use some of the tools, like the Window
>  > Browser, I get a dialog box saying something like the following:
>  >
>  > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > X ERROR
>  >   Display: #<X-LIBRARY:DISPLAY "localhost:10.0" = #x0817E800>
>  >   Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
>  >   Major opcode of failed request: 59 (X_SetClipRectangles)
>  >   ResourceID: 0x1A00281 (27263617)
>  > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  >
>  > With only an OK button. Now when I click that button, another window
>  > with the same contents appear, and so on. And the only way (so far)
>  > that I know to stop it is to kill LispWorks altogether.
>  >
>  > Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I missed?
>  > It works well however, when ran locally.
>
>  Looks like an X/ssh problem.  You should make sure that forwarding of
>  X11 packets is enabled on both the client and the server side.
>

Ok. I'll try it again and post updates.

-- 
Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:03:53 +0800, "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Has anybody experienced running LispWorks from the network?
>
>  Works fine for me.
>
>
>  > I'm trying to run LispWorks from an X tunnel via SSH.  It seems to
>  > load well, but then I use some of the tools, like the Window
>  > Browser, I get a dialog box saying something like the following:
>  >
>  > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > X ERROR
>  >   Display: #<X-LIBRARY:DISPLAY "localhost:10.0" = #x0817E800>
>  >   Error: BadGC (invalid GC parameter)
>  >   Major opcode of failed request: 59 (X_SetClipRectangles)
>  >   ResourceID: 0x1A00281 (27263617)
>  > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  >
>  > With only an OK button. Now when I click that button, another window
>  > with the same contents appear, and so on. And the only way (so far)
>  > that I know to stop it is to kill LispWorks altogether.
>  >
>  > Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I missed?
>  > It works well however, when ran locally.
>
>  Looks like an X/ssh problem.  You should make sure that forwarding of
>  X11 packets is enabled on both the client and the server side.
>

How do I do that?

-- 
Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 3:28 AM, Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:03:53 +0800, "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > Has anybody experienced running LispWorks from the network?
>
>  Works fine for me.
>

How did you run it from the network?

-- 
Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:33:54 +0800, "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> wrote:

> How do I do that?

Given that you see /something/ at least, I'd say that your best bet is
to try with another client and/or another X server first to see if you
have the same problems then.  Or maybe it's just a matter of the
window manager settings.  Which combination are you currently using?

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Edi Weitz <edi@agharta.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:33:54 +0800, "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > How do I do that?
>
>  Given that you see /something/ at least, I'd say that your best bet is
>  to try with another client and/or another X server first to see if you
>  have the same problems then.  Or maybe it's just a matter of the
>  window manager settings.  Which combination are you currently using?
>

I tried using some of our workstations in our network, and it works fine.

Currently, I'm using this:

host1$ ssh -X host2
host2$ lispworks

I've also tried changing window managers, but I still get the same behavior.
I hope somebody could point out what's causing the problem.

-- 
Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>

Re: Miscellaneous questions

"Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> writes:

> Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I
> missed? It works well however, when ran locally.

I haven't seen exactly that error message as a symptom of this, but I
/think/ this may be related to trusted vs. untrusted X11 forwarding -
if your client ssh version is OpenSSH 3.8 or later.

Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X and see what happens! (And RTFM so you
know what you're doing :-))
-- 
  regards,
    Espen

Re: Miscellaneous questions

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Espen Vestre <ev@netfonds.no> wrote:
> "Rommel Martinez" <ebzzry@gmail.com> writes:
>
>  > Is it an X problem? Is it because of the tunnel? What have I
>  > missed? It works well however, when ran locally.
>
>  I haven't seen exactly that error message as a symptom of this, but I
>  /think/ this may be related to trusted vs. untrusted X11 forwarding -
>  if your client ssh version is OpenSSH 3.8 or later.
>
>  Try ssh -Y instead of ssh -X and see what happens! (And RTFM so you
>  know what you're doing :-))
>  --
>   regards,
>     Espen
>

Nice! -Y works. Yes, I'll RTFM.

Thanks a lot. :-)

-- 
Rommel M. Martinez <ebzzry@gmail.com>