Can't run emacs (specifically) on X over ssh

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 02:51:43PM -0500, Greg Brigley wrote:
> I'm having problems running emacs via ssh on FC1.  
> 
> Running emacs directly works fine, but if I ssh to localhost and try to run 
> emacs, it just stops and waits (apparently indefinitely) until I kill it.  
> There are no error messages.
> 
> The same thing happens if I ssh to the FC1 box from elsewhere.
> 
> Other x clients work fine including, for example: xclock, gedit, and nautilus.
> 
> Within the ssh session:
> 
> echo $DISPLAY gives me:
> localhost:13.0

Hmmm, is 13 the display it should be on? Check to see if the offset is
13 in /etc/ssh/ssh_config. In mine, X11DisplayOffset is 10. You are
probably OK here if other programs launch sucessfully, but that struck
me as odd.

Also, try running emacs with no .emacs file. "emacs -q". If that
works, then you have a problem in your .emacs.

> 
> emacs works fine if I bypass ssh forwarding, such as:
> >emacs -display :0.0
> or
> >emacs -display anothermachine:0.0
> but not if I do:
> >emacs -display localhost:13.0
> 
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
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