I often see this when I've forgotten to install the xorg-x11-xauth package.
Having to set DISPLAY manually is annoying
regards,
Bent
On 10/10/07, Barry Schiffman <schiffo2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- Barry Schiffman <schiffo2000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > --- Feizhou <feizhou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > James A. Peltier wrote:
> > > > I'm having problems with ssh.com and X11
> > > forwarding
> > > >
> > > > ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.2.0 (non-commercial
> > > version) on i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > > >
> > > > I am in the process of testing some of my
> > machines
> > > with CentOS 5
> > > > x86/x86_64 and have run into a bit of a snag.
> > X11
> > > Forwarding is not
> > > > working.
> > > >
> > > > Any hints? I've checked the ssh config files
> > and
> > > they seem to be
> > > > identical to the config files on our existing
> > SuSE
> > > 10.0 machines which
> > > > are working. This is troubling indeed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > ssh -v and see what the ssh client complains
> > about.
> >
> > I just installed CentOS 5.0 on one machine here and
> > have a similar problem. I haven't changed the config
> > file from what was installed, and it looks pretty
> > much
> > like the config in CentOS 4.5.
> >
> > I've got openssh-4.3p2-16.el5 on the CentOS 5.0
> > machine, and have tried to get X11 forwarding
> > working
> > on connections from three machines with different
> > os's
> > -- centos 4.5, ubuntu and Mac OS.
> >
> > ssh -v doesn't seem to say anything out of the
> > ordinary. After authentication, it says:
> >
> > Entering interactive session.
> > Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication
> > spoofing.
> >
> > Trying to open an emacs window without a -d
> > argument,
> > I get a message about no address for localhost:6010.
> >
> > Supplying the -d argument, I get
> > Xlib: connection to "xxx:0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified.
> >
> > Barry
> >
>
> I should've tried this before writing. If I set the
> environment variable DISPLAY in the xterm after making
> the ssh connection, it works.
>
>
>
>
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