Am 14.03.2012 16:24, schrieb gene heskett: > On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 11:11:14 AM Adam Jackson did opine: > >> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 03:27 -0400, gene heskett wrote: >>> ssh -Y first machine works, and uses Display:10:0, ssh -Y second >>> machine doesn't, tries & fails to use Display 0:0. >>> >>> Where & what does it take to enable the 2nd one? (not normally at the >>> same time) >> >> Either: >> >> a) The shell you launched ssh from for the second machine didn't have >> $DISPLAY set, > > Same shell on this machine. login to shop works, to lathe doesn't. If its > the login shell on the second machine, how do I set that? And why should > it be different since the install cd was the exact same cd? > > I had to completely blacklist/disable ipv6 on the machine the XForward > isn't working on. >
There is an issue with ipv6 an certain ssh configurations. I had this problem you can see some strange errors in /var/log/ >> b) sshd_config for the second machine doesn't have "X11Forwarding yes" >> in it. > > Contains, apparently by default: > > X11Forwarding yes > X11DisplayOffset 10> > >> - ajax > > I was pointed at the xauth command to fix this, but that man page has to > rank near the top for all time obtuseness, and when executed on the non- > working machine, returns: > > gene@lathe:~$ pwd > /home/gene > gene@lathe:~$ xauth list > xauth: creating new authority file /home/gene/.Xauthority > gene@lathe:~$ cat .Xauthority > cat: .Xauthority: No such file or directory > > for as many times as you want to hit the up-arrow & return. > This is strange, when ssh starts it should create the files. i assume you did the ssh -v ? re, wh > Any better ideas? > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: arch...@mail-archive.com
