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

[Greg Brigley]

"grep X11DisplayOffset /etc/ssh/ssh_config" returns nothing.

I'm guessing that 10 is the default and that I already had 3 ssh sessions open 
to this box before the one where I tested this.  I'm assuming that things 
like xterm and xclock would also not work if this was wrong.

"emacs -q" doesn't fix the problem.

My installations of ssh, X, and emacs are completely stock.  I haven't touched 
the config files.  


On Friday 13 February 2004 19:01, Charles Curley wrote:
> 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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