"Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I think this is probably a simple question, but I do not recall having > any difficulties on 5.2.1 or 5.3-beta3, which are the other versions > that I had run on this box. > > I recently have performed a clean install of 6.0-release on this > machine, on a new hard drive, and then copied over the data and some > configuration files (ssh keys, etc.) from the old hard drive (it is a > slow machine, so I didn't want to build current). Having done so, I > then tried to login remotely to this machine and run xmms (it is > mostly used as my "music server"), which failed with this error: > ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display > I have tried with passing the -X flag, and with passing the -Y flag to > ssh, but there is no change in behaviour. > Is there something that I have forgotten to enable, or is this unexpected? > > Some information about the computer: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a > FreeBSD pleonasm.mooo.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb > 20 01:22:19 UTC 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PLEONASM i386
Use higher levels of debug output, and let ssh itself tell you what it thinks the problem is. Also, compare the behaviour to other X applications, like xterm. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
