Re: Broken X11 connections from remote machines
Re: Broken X11 connections from remote machines
- Subject: Re: Broken X11 connections from remote machines
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:13:02 -0500
On Sep 14, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Greig Cowan wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> The original poster (in the link) reported that this happened on Snow Leopard as well.
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>> I recall someone reporting this on the list sometime in the past couple months, but that thread died down. The reporter said that the existing connections still worked. Is that the same for you (ie: if you have an xterm open, it stays open and responsive, but you can't create a new one)? If that's the case, this has nothing to do with X11 and is probably a bug in sshd on the remote machine.
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> Looks like I have found the solution: ssh -Y
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> I have used "ForwardX11 yes" in my .ssh/config file for years, so I don't know what's changed which means that I now need to use the -Y flag explicitly. Anyway, the problem appears to have gone.
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> Greig
Someone mentioned that they were using -Y and were still having the issue. This doesn't seem like a -X/-Y issue. _______________________________________________
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