X server not reponding
Dan Track
dan.track at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 12:35:20 UTC 2005
Hi
Thanks for that. It was well worth reading.
Unfortunately its still not working. I'll tell you what I'm doing.
my box -----> intermediary box ------> remote box
between each I am using ssh -X ( I tried -Y aswell). Now that X is
listening to port 6000 ( although I don't know why I need to do that
if the display is going to be forwarded by ssh) I tried another app
and I got this:
gthumb
Xlib: connection to "80.7.169.154:0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
(gthumb:24715): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Any ideas.
Thanks
Dan
On 6/23/05, Walter Francis <wally at theblackmoor.net> wrote:
> Sorry, I haven't read all the responses so far, here's my list of
> suggestions/comments.
>
> By default for some years now, the TCP port has been disabled for X,
> instead it's suggested one use ssh tunneling. This is set in the
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file, most likely has --nolisten tcp on the
> X line.
>
> The better solution is to just use ssh by calling ssh -Y machine,
> which sets up a tunnel which should give you a display variable. The
> only reason you should have to manually set a display variable is if
> you're using X over TCP instead of over ssh.
>
> In case you're wondering about ssh -X vs -Y, I don't know. I do know
> that -X seems to time out after a few minutes, so if you ssh -X machine,
> then 10 minutes later decide to run something, the tunnel no longer
> works. ssh -Y seems perminant. Perhaps that is why it's called "trusted".
>
> If you can ssh into the machine, you can run applications over it, no
> additional ports are used. So..
>
> localmachine# ssh -Y remotemachine
> user/login
> remotemachine# firefox
>
> And it'll work, firefox will come up on localmachine. I can't imagine
> why it wouldn't.
>
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