>> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now >> I get: >> >> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not >> generated >> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. >> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server >> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key >> Cannot open display: > > Ah, I had this problem for months; it was driving me crazy! > > I don't remember the specifics, but it had to to with some wankery of glibc > not working properly with xauth. I'm pretty sure the fix is to update to >>=sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 or regress glibc back a few ticks. > > Regards, > Wyatt
Thanks Wyatt. I upgraded the server and client to the latest glibc in portage with the same result. When I tried to downgrade glibc, I got: * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system: * Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction - Grant
