Re: X11 forwarding in OpenSSH question

From: Nikolay Arbuzov (narbuzov_at_att.com)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:59:41 -0500

And it makes no difference which X11 program you run right?
Even xterm not working?

"Mike" <mikeumo@onebox.com> wrote in message
news:oZsub.1332$Nr3.263@newssvr22.news.prodigy.com...
> 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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