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Re: How to run X Session from RH8 via ssh -X? How to run vnc via ssh?
- From: "Brett Serkez" <bserkez at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 11:19:13 -0500
- Subject: Re: How to run X Session from RH8 via ssh -X? How to run vnc via ssh?
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0603020820510.28678@access1.cims.nyu.edu> <441ad940.063e2b04.0270.19ddSMTPIN_ADDED@mx.gmail.com>
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> However, I cannot seem to start an X session from my "ssh -X -p 892
> Administrator@209.22.31.134" session.
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I have previously reported this behavior, and not seen a fix, it used to work.
The problem is running xauth under the covers hangs.
If you add -v -v -v to your line above, you'll see it hang like:
debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f
/tmp/ssh-c96kVgf686/xauthfile generate 127.0.0.1:0.0
MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200 2>/dev/null
If you remove the X forwarding switch (i.e., not use -X) you should be
able to login.
If you kill the X server and/or kill the hung xauth process, an
'empty' ssh Window (non-X) will appear, indicating to me that for some
reason, xauth is looking for input from the console vs. stdin.
As a work around, you can manually reverse forward the display, something like:
ssh -R 6001:localhost:6000 user@system
then manually setting your display, in the above case:
export DISPLAY=:1
Manually picking a port as above can interfere or fail if it is
already in use, using the -X (or -Y) enlists the sshd on the target to
find a free port.
Brett
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