If you just want to test an X connection over ssh, try to run xcalc or 
something else that has a GUI.  If you run xcalc and the calculator pops up, 
you're forwarding X properly.  
 
--Joe

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul Greidanus
Sent: Thu 7/31/2008 12:51 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] [Oscar-users] driving me crazy!!!



Is there any way to test for this before attempting to run OSCAR?

On 30-Jul-08, at 6:01 PM, Abhishek K wrote:

> Arrgh!
>
> If you are driving the OSCAR installation over SSH, you might want 
> to pass -Y flag to ssh to make sure X11 connection is forwarded 
> properly.
> So use ssh -Y <oscar_server> and see if the GUI comes up.
>
> Cheers,
>  -- Abhishek
>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Joseph Norris 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> I did a start_over and then an install_cluster eth1 and I keep getting
> an error:
>
> X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid atom parameter)........ 
> and
> the gui will not come up.
>

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