Re: Redhat WS 4, AIX 5.2.0.4, X11 apps problem

From: Barry Brimer (barry.brimer_at_bigfoot.com)
Date: 08/23/05

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    Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:07:24 -0500
To: Travis Johnson <travis_johnson@genpt.com>

    Quoting Travis Johnson <travis_johnson@genpt.com>:

    > Greetings,
    >
    > Yesterday I began experiencing problems with my new install of redhat
    > WS 4. In the morning I was able to connect to my AIX 5.2.0.4 machines
    > and make X11 apps show up on my desktop. By the end of the day I tried
    > to connect to these same servers and can no longer get X windows to
    > start up. I've done an xhost+ even to see if that would help and it did
    > not. So now I'm to the point where I'm running ssh in debug mode and I
    > come across this error I've never seen before and googling for it
    > doesn't return any results. Here is a copy of the error I'm receiving:

    <snip>

    > Now I've done a xhost+ to ensure that doesn't cause problems.
    > hqs6000q.genpt.net is the AIX box. tjohnson is the redhat WS 4 box.
    > I can successfully connect to other Redhat ES/AS servers and do X-apps,
    > only the AIX servers now don't work. Those other Redhat servers can
    > successfully connect and run X-apps. It appears to only be my
    > workstation that's broke. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

    I believe the default setting for X11 forwarding changed in RHEL 4. Try using
    ssh -X which will explicity enable X11 forwarding.

    Barry

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