Re: X11 forwarding in OpenSSH question

From: Mike (mikeumo_at_onebox.com)
Date: 11/18/03 

Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:50:12 GMT

Carl Holtje wrote:

> The easiest thing to do is to log in as follows:
>
> ssh -X {username}@{BoxB}
>
> This will forward all X-display stuff through the SSH tunnel, and you
> don't have to setup any DISPLAY variables or xhost-stuff...
>
> Carl
>

I try it and I get exactly the same error as in case 1 (DISPLAY is set to
localhost:10.0):

ibGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
kbuildsycoca running...
libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding

I have X11 forwarding enabled in both client and server ssh to start with.

if I unset DISPLAY (DISPLAY= ; export DISPLAY in /etc/profile) then I get:

konqueror: cannot connect to X server

So, it looks like despite the claims that ssh temporarily sets DISPLAY
variable to point in right direction, it is not happening in my case.

Any ideas?

Mikhail.

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