Hi Peter,
I had a similar error when I upgraded my Mac to 10.4 (Tiger). After that I had to do "Trusted X forwarding." To do this I now have to supply the "-Y" option to ssh when I login to my remote linux box:
ssh -Y mybox.unl.edu
I don't know if you are using Mac OS X or not. Some versions of ssh don't have this -Y option, so in that case I don't know what you need to do.
Aaron.
On Jun 24, 2005, at 6:34 AM, Peter Fisher wrote:
> hi Rooters,
>
> I have been using root happily on a remote Linux machine for some
> months. just today, whe I start root, I get
>
> Error in <RootX11ErrorHandler>: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)
> ( XID:39, XREG:18)
>
> although I get a prompt, root does not respond to commands.
>
> Can anyone diagnose this error for me so I can trace what has changed?
>
> Best,
>
> Peter Fisher
> MIT
>
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