Error ".X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter)" executing InstallBuilder

Products

• VMware InstallBuilder

Issue/Introduction

.X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) executing InstallBuilder.

How can you fix this problem?

Resolution

This is happening because you are forwarding the X session over ssh. Make sure you have:

ForwardX11Trusted yes

in

~/.ssh/config

and

/etc/ssh_config