On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Bruce McCulley wrote:
> I've been having a problem with an xterm display thrown to my local screen
> vanishing mysteriously.
Can you run the xterm from a command prompt? I realize this becomes a
chicken-and-egg problem, but maybe you can get some clue as to why the xterm
is exiting (killed by a signal, Xlib call failed, etc.) on stderr from the
xterm process. Can you SSH to a shell prompt at the other end with a terminal
on your end? Maybe add some some output redirection to the xterm command you
are invoking?
> ... I can find no trace of it (not that I've got much clue about where I
> should be looking).
netstat will give you information about current X sessions (along with every
other type of IPC that smells like a BSD socket), but if you're running over
an SSH tunnel, that will hide things.
> BTW, the net context doesn't seem like it should be a factor ...
Now that you've said that, that becomes the most likely cause... ;-)
> Anyway, the big picture is that I first connect through the Internet using
> SSH to log onto a corporate firewall system, then bring up the xterm
> session to establish a secure pipe to my display.
Any possibility you're behind a stateful firewall which is timing out a
connection for some reason? We get that with SSH and Linux a lot; a
masqueraded connection sits idle for time period N, the firewall decides the
connection is closed, and on the next I/O, the connection closes.
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