Why is it that ssh with X11 auth forwarding fails -sometimes- on FC[23]?

[Craig Thomas]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 21:49 -0800, Dan Stromberg wrote:
> The FC3 host is the sshd server.  Same for FC2: the sshd server.

<snip>

> Yes.  It seems to say everything is fine, but then it still doesn't work
> most of the time.

<snip>

> tesuji-strombrg> xterm
> X connection to tesuji.nac.uci.edu:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server
> shutdown).

I'm late to this thread, so maybe I missed this but are you sure X
forwarding is enabled for the FC3 server?  the default behavior changed
from FC2 to FC3 WRT X forwarding in openssh.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/os/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html


HTH,

-- 
Craig Thomas <cjtinhp at optonline.net>