On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Darren Tucker <dtucker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 8/12/10 5:33 AM, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>>
>> iqbala@jp2 { ~ }$ ssh -Y hlr-brixuat-01.example.net.
>> Password:
>> Last login: Tue Dec 7 17:33:46 2010 from jp2.example.net
>> [iqbala@hlr-brixuat-01 ~]$ xterm
>> _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for hostname:6000: Name
>> or service not known
>> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: hostname:0.0
>
> Most likely something in your shell startup scripts is (re)setting $DISPLAY
> to the wrong value. sshd will set display numbers of 10 and up (by default,
> this can be changed in sshd_config via X11DisplayOffset).
Thanks a lot for the pointer. That is exactly what happened.
There was this line in the .bash_profile. Not sure how it got there.
DISPLAY=hostname:0.0; export DISPLAY
I commented it out. Now its all good. Thanks a lot again
>
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
