On 01/09/2012 01:23 PM, Kirk Wallace wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 10:16 -0800, Kirk Wallace wrote: > >> The recent talk about headless emc2 got my to look into running emc2 on >> a remote PC with ssh. I looked at the wiki page >> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?Running_Multiple_User_Interfaces >> >> and generic pages on X11 through ssh >> http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/Displaying_Ubuntu_Linux_Applications_Remotely_%28X11_Forwarding%29 >> >> After apt-get installing ssh-server (sshd). I was able to get the >> generic bit to work. I think the bit I don't have worked out is the >> setting the remote environment. The remote emc2 page calls for an >> environment script but this is for a run-in-place set up. Can anyone >> share the features for a LiveCD install? >> > Here is what the emc command returns: > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > kwallace@104:~/emc2$ emc > EMC2 - 2.4.6 > Machine configuration directory is > '/home/kwallace/emc2/configs/stepper-2' > Machine configuration file is 'stepper_inch.ini' > Starting EMC2... > X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) > Major opcode of failed request: 3 (X_GetWindowAttributes) > Resource id in failed request: 0xffffffff > Serial number of failed request: 738 > Current serial number in output stream: 739 > Shutting down and cleaning up EMC2... > Cleanup done > EMC terminated with an error. You can find more information in the log: > /home/kwallace/emc_debug.txt > and > /home/kwallace/emc_print.txt > as well as in the output of the shell command 'dmesg' and in the > terminal > kwallace@104:~/emc2$ > Kirk
When you ssh to the remote machine, use this: ssh -X <username>@<host> The -X sets up the tunnel to the remote machine and sets your environment there to put the X display on your local system. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
