I am using Emacs 25 by connecting to a Ubuntu 12.04 desktop from Windows 7 through vnc.
When I am trying to copy something from Windows and paste them into Emacs 25 running on Ubuntu, I get gui-get-selection error in *Message* buffer and nothing is pasted.
Meanwhile, the copy/paste between Windows 7 and Emacs 24 on Ubuntu through vnc works fine.
Also the copy/paste between Emacs 25 and other programs on Ubuntu (Emacs 24, GNOME terminal) works just fine.
I can see the error message "Selection owner couldn't convert" is in src/xselect.c, could this be a BUG in Emacs 25 or something related with my build/using environments?
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In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.10)
of 2016-06-02 built on xxxxx
Repository revision: 6b985764f07ae164d8142ba64774f2beb2856ca8
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[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *scratch* [0 259200]
[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *Minibuf-0* [3 259200]
[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *Messages* [nil 259200]
[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *code-conversion-work* [nil 259200]
[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *Echo Area 0* [nil 259200]
[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *Echo Area 1* [nil 259200]
[2016-06-02 19:49:56] *Warnings* [0 259200]
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