Re: Login hangs in X11 with AIX 5.2

From: George Baltz (George.Baltz_at_noaa.gov)
Date: 11/16/05

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    Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:49:23 -0500
    
    

    On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 05:48:01 -0800, Steve wrote:

    > I have an AIX 5.3 server running openSSH 4.1p1 from IBM's "OpenSSH on AIX"
    > sourceforge site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openssh-aix) and a
    > downloaded OpenSSL 0.9.7g RPM package. It ran fine until I recently
    > applied maintenance, bringing the box to 5.3.03 from 5.3.01. Now SSH
    > hangs during login, apparently during X11 authentication. (I see
    > "/usr/bin/X11/xauth -q -" in the process list.) I do not normally use X,
    > but we leave it enabled for users. If I unset the DISPLAY variable before
    > issuing the ssh command, the login proceeds normally - no problems.
    >
    > When I login with a remote shell, whether from another AIX box or via
    > Putty from my desktop, the session usually just hangs and never recovers -
    > no error messages or anything. Occasionaly it only hangs for about 30
    > seconds before giving me the following error, and then I finally get
    > logged in:
    > /usr/bin/X11/xauth: 1356-361 Timeout in locking authority file
    > /home/sbassle/.Xauthority.

    This is a known bug in ML03 - see APAR IY76807.

    <snipage>

    > I don't believe I can roll this out to users until I get this resolved, so
    > I would really appreciate any help. Thanks! Steve

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