On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 21:47 -0500, Deron Meranda wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 10:14:08 -0800, Dan Stromberg strombrg@dcs.nac.uci.edu wrote:
However, I'm finding that while I can (mostly?) reliably forward xauth data and $DISPLAY from an RHEL 3 host to AIX 5.1, Solaris 8 and others, it only works with Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3 -some- of the time.
Is your FC3 system the ssh client or the ssh server?
The FC3 host is the sshd server. Same for FC2: the sshd server.
Have your tried using the -v option to ssh? Or multiple -v -v -v options to get even more verbose output.
Yes. It seems to say everything is fine, but then it still doesn't work most of the time.
In what manner does it "not work". Does the ssh itself fail to connect? Is the DISPLAY not getting set? Do the windows just never appear? Or is there an actual X11 protocol error someplace? Please provide more details.
As suggested above:
$DISPLAY is set.
xauth in some form or other is getting passed.
I didn't previously mention:
I can telnet to the port that $DISPLAY indicates: n+6000. The connection is accepted.
However over half the time:
tesuji-strombrg> xterm X connection to tesuji.nac.uci.edu:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Yes, I have X11UseLocalhost=no. This makes it easier to pass xauth creds across su/gsu/sudo.
Thanks!