On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:48:15 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >>> Recently, when I do "slogin -X server" (for one particular server, not >>> all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. >>> xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment. >>> >>> It used to work. I don't know what changed for sure. >>> >>> Does anybody know what can cause this? >> >> Try to run slogin with extra verbosity "on", e.g.: >> >> slogin -X user@server -vvv" > > Thanks for the suggestion. > > The client is a Mac G5 running OS-X Leopard. The server is a Mac G4 > running Debian Squeeze. It's not specific to this particular client. I > get the same problem from a client running Debian Squeeze. > > Here's the output. I see it requesting X11 forwarding (near the end) > but I don't see anything specifically saying it was granted. Nor do I > see it being specifically refused. Fascinating... > > Rick > > PS: I recently ran "aptitude update && aptitude upgrade" on this server > and it picked up a couple of months worth of updates. I don't *think* I > had this problem before then... > > > bigal:~ rbthomas$ slogin -X -vvv macs > OpenSSH_5.2p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28
(...) > debug2: callback start > debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-3jAbtiROOy/xauthfile > generate /tmp/launch-stxZNc/:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 untrusted timeout 1200 > 2>/dev/null > debug2: x11_get_proto: /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -f /tmp/ssh-3jAbtiROOy/xauthfile > list /tmp/launch-stxZNc/:0 2>/dev/null > debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. > debug2: channel 0: request x11-req confirm 0 (...) Mmm, is that "untrusted timeout" right? I don't see it in my Lenny :-? Given that you are login on your own computers you can try with "-Y" flag (untrusted X11 forwarding) and see how it goes. Another test you can run is by creating a new user and launching "slogin -X -vvv macs xterm" session from there. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
