Cousin Stanley wrote : >> Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12 >> debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having >> invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do >> anything X related from a terminal ....
Liam O'Toole replied : > Are you running applications > entirely within the Virtual Box guest ? Yes, just using it as a test-bed for sid and for a few packages that are not in squeeze. > Or trying to forward output > to the host display ? No, although I might want to try that in the future .... I can ssh & scp from the sid guest to the squeeze host .... However, if I ssh -Y to the squeeze host I get the invalid magic cookie message the same as only trying to start a local X program from the terminal in the sid guest .... X forwarding is enabled in the squeeze host, and I can ssh -Y into the host from ArchLinux and Ubuntu guests also under VirtualBox on the same host without problems .... -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix, Arizona -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
