On 05/27/2002 07:03 PM, did Sridhar M.A. write (doodah! doodah!):
> I am facing a peculiar problem. I want to ssh into a machine and use
> some X apps. I have set X forwarding in ssh config. But when I do a
>
> $ ssh -X host2
>
> from host1, and run the application (say, galeon/gvim/etc), I get the
> display for a couple of seconds. After the machine (host1) hangs---none
> of the keys on the keyboard work, mouse does not work and I cannot even
> ping the machine from host2. I have to press reset to get it up again
> :-(
In 5 years of using ssh I've never come across this problem. You might
try running ssh with the '-v' (or even '-vvv') and see if any message is
printed just before the freeze-up.
BTW, why don't you configure X11 forwarding on the sshd server on host2?
You don't need the -X switch if you did that.
Thaths
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