wanderlust error: Cannot resize the root window of a frame

[Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>]

I've run into an odd bug.

I'm ssh'ed into a remote machine, running emacs there (ubuntu). When I
invoke wanderlust, and try to display a message, I get the error
"Cannot resize the root window of a frame".

repeat by, go to summary mode for  particular folder. Delete all
windows but the summary one. hit SPC, ".", etc.

Rather annoying, as I run into this pretty much right away.

I can get around the problem by splitting the summary window (so there
is more than one window within the frame).

Details:

I got wanderlust up and running under Ubuntu 13.04. I used el-get to
install wl and its various dependencies.

I do not run into the above error when running emacs on my laptop (running
RHEL).

Seems rather obscure.  Googling for "Cannot resize the root window of
a frame" gets only a handful of hits.

Suggestions?

Thomas