No xauth data.
I have a tiny problem with ssh. I run: ssh -X -T -f twin /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -sb -sl 1000 -rightbar -ls and get the line: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Clearly I'm missing something. But if I run the same thing from a Linux machine which share the same home directory (mounted via samba), I get no warning. Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Cliff. -- Cliff Stanford Might Limited +44 20 7257 2000 (Office) 17-18 Henrietta Street +44 7973 616 666 (Mobile) London WC2E 8QH
Re: No xauth data.
Cliff, I can tell you that the warning is like ssh telling you that the sky is blue: it is telling you that a certain feature is not supported by your ssh client. This can be ignored, but search the mailing list archives if you want more information about what the message means. Harold Cliff Stanford wrote: I have a tiny problem with ssh. I run: ssh -X -T -f twin /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm -sb -sl 1000 -rightbar -ls and get the line: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Clearly I'm missing something. But if I run the same thing from a Linux machine which share the same home directory (mounted via samba), I get no warning. Could anyone please tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, Cliff.
Re: Copy / Paste
Cliff, Cliff Stanford wrote: Copy and paste to and from windows applications seems to be a lot more stable now with the latest patches (thanks). However, I still have the problem that, when I highlight something in an X window, it immediately un-highlights itself. Yes. I start XWin from /usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat with the following command: start XWin -multiwindow -nounixkill -clipboard -nowinkill If I leave off the -clipboard, highlighting works as expected. If I then run clipbrd.exe I get the same behaviour as with the -clipboard option. Is this expected behaviour? Or am I doing something wrong? Yes, it is expected. I have written many messages about this before. I am surprised you haven't seen one yet. Here is one of my more recent messages on how development is going: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-06/msg00146.html I succeeded in using XFIXES to detect when the clipboard contents had changed. However, that introduced a new problem of having to flag which application changed the clipboard and stop trying to notify and copy the contents on those changes. The problem here was that the clipboard change detection caused an infinite loop. I made a quick and dirty change to stop the loop; it worked but I needed to spend more time looking into how it should be done properly. So, development is stuck now since I am working 30 or more hours a week and spending about 20 hours a week on my master's CS degree classes. The code is in the XFIXES_BRANCH in our xoncygwin CVS tree (see the message above for more details, I think), if you are interested in working on it. Harold P.S. And does anyone have a cure for my constantly pressing the right-button in windows applications and wondering why it doesn't paste anything? :-) Yes, in Windows XP, turn on the 'quick edit' more for the command shell. This enables right-click to paste the current clipboard contents in your Cygwin bash shell. Other than that, good luck. :)
Re: Copy / Paste
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Cliff Stanford wrote: [snip] P.S. And does anyone have a cure for my constantly pressing the right-button in windows applications and wondering why it doesn't paste anything? :-) Yes, in Windows XP, turn on the 'quick edit' more for the command shell. This enables right-click to paste the current clipboard contents in your Cygwin bash shell. Other than that, good luck. :) Cliff, The above should also work in Win2k. You can also use rxvt to host your shells, which should be pretty uniform across all platforms. Did you look into Windows power toys? They may do what you want, but there were reports of some of them causing problems with other Cygwin and X applications. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`'-. ;-;;,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster. -- Patrick Naughton
Re: right-click problem
Hi, I'm still stuck on this despite going through the archives - I can't find a similar problem. On Exceed 6.2, the submenus work if I right-click the mouse. However in XFree86 and Exceed 7.1, they don't. (These are all with fresh installs). I have even tried running the app on Linux but still have the same problem. Not that I want to run the app on Exceed, but I just wonder what Exceed 6.2 is doing that the others aren't? JS. You're gonna have to specify which application causes trouble and/or what type of operating system it is running on. I assume that this is a problem with a remote application since we have seen reports of this before. So, I guess you should search the mailing list archives as well. Harold J S wrote: Hi, I have an X-app which when I right click on some of the icons produces a menu in Exceed, but in XFree doesn't - however if I run any other apps where I need to right click the mouse to get a menu up, it does work. Could anyone suggest how I might fix this problem please? Thanks, JS. _ Hotmail messages direct to your mobile phone http://www.msn.co.uk/msnmobile _ Use MSN Messenger to send music and pics to your friends http://www.msn.co.uk/messenger
Re: No xauth data.
If you want the error message to go away, play with the xauth command on your Windows box. # xauth -v list This will tell you your local Xauthority file and what it contains. If it's not there, or if it's empty, try to play with xauth generate to get it to contain something like localhost:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 [long number in hex] [cygwin_pc]/unix:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 [another long number in hex] I'd tell you the exact command to use for xauth generate, but I forget. Perhaps somebody could post the correct answer and then add this to the FAQ. Good luck, JT
Setup Hangs in XFree86-bin-icons.sh
This is probably something that you already know, but in case you don't there are some problems in XFree86-bin-icons.sh. On my XP, it hangs. I went through various permutations, e.g. deleting the scripts from /etc/postinstall, /etc/preremove and /usr/X11R6/bin and reinstalling stuff without finding anything that works (short of completely removing this package). For reference, the date on the script is 9/29/2003. --- Laurence Marks Department of Materials Science and Engineering MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall 2225 N Campus Drive Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60201, USA Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.numis.northwestern.edu ---
Re: XWin --query
I have not installed any new hardware, and both server and client machines have only one NIC. (Both are standard wired NICs.) I did update the Linux box with the latest patches recently, that may be causing the problem, but somehow I think it is the cygwin/xfree86 end. Greg -- Greg Freemyer On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 20:15, Harold L Hunt II wrote: Did you also just get a wireless networking card or another network card? The reason I am asking is that you may now need to use the -from parameter to indicate the return address that should be sent to the remote machine. Please indicate if you have only one network card. Harold Greg Freemyer wrote: I have been using XWin --query node_name for a while. Last week I updated to the currently released cygwin and xfree86 binaries. The XWin --query is now only bringing up a X display, but it is not showing the KDM login screen I'm used to seeing. If I look on the Linux box I'm querying, I see that it is trying to connect back to the cygwin/xfree box, but it is unable to open the display. Do I need to do somethnig else? Greg
Re: XWin --query
Pavel, Pavel Rosenboim wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: I have not installed any new hardware, and both server and client machines have only one NIC. (Both are standard wired NICs.) I did update the Linux box with the latest patches recently, that may be causing the problem, but somehow I think it is the cygwin/xfree86 end. Is it possible that kdm configuration got overwritten, and now it does not allow connections from remote hosts? I was thinking the same thing. Greg --- Please check the following FAQ entry for information on how to make sure that kdm/gdm/xdm are allowing remote logins: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-mandrake-8.1-xdmcp Harold
Re: right-click problem
J S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi, I'm still stuck on this despite going through the archives - I can't find a similar problem. On Exceed 6.2, the submenus work if I right-click the mouse. However in XFree86 and Exceed 7.1, they don't. (These are all with fresh installs). I have even tried running the app on Linux but still have the same problem. Not that I want to run the app on Exceed, but I just wonder what Exceed 6.2 is doing that the others aren't? JS. Did you turn off num-lock?
Re: XWin --query
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:14, Pavel Rosenboim wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: I have not installed any new hardware, and both server and client machines have only one NIC. (Both are standard wired NICs.) I did update the Linux box with the latest patches recently, that may be causing the problem, but somehow I think it is the cygwin/xfree86 end. Is it possible that kdm configuration got overwritten, and now it does not allow connections from remote hosts? Pavel. I have used ethereal on the linux box to monitor the tcp/ip traffic. The remote connection is allowed, but when the linux box tries to connect back to the cygwin/xfree86 box, its messages seem to be ignored. I am not running any kind of firewall on the cygwin/xfree86 box and they are on a common LAN. It seems almost like I need to issue a 'xhosts +node' on the cygwin box, but I have not done that in the past and the cygwin box is not rejecting the linux box, it is just ignoring it from what I see. Has there been a security change that now requires xhosts +node to be run somehow with the XWin --query command? Greg -- Greg Freemyer
Re: XWin --query
Greg, I think you need to either attempt to connect from another Windows machine to the same linux box with XDMCP, or you need to attempt to connect to another remote linux machine using XDMCP from the same Windows box. You need to prove to yourself that the problem is on one end or the other. Harold Greg Freemyer wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:14, Pavel Rosenboim wrote: Greg Freemyer wrote: I have not installed any new hardware, and both server and client machines have only one NIC. (Both are standard wired NICs.) I did update the Linux box with the latest patches recently, that may be causing the problem, but somehow I think it is the cygwin/xfree86 end. Is it possible that kdm configuration got overwritten, and now it does not allow connections from remote hosts? Pavel. I have used ethereal on the linux box to monitor the tcp/ip traffic. The remote connection is allowed, but when the linux box tries to connect back to the cygwin/xfree86 box, its messages seem to be ignored. I am not running any kind of firewall on the cygwin/xfree86 box and they are on a common LAN. It seems almost like I need to issue a 'xhosts +node' on the cygwin box, but I have not done that in the past and the cygwin box is not rejecting the linux box, it is just ignoring it from what I see. Has there been a security change that now requires xhosts +node to be run somehow with the XWin --query command? Greg
Cygwin Setup 99%
I'm trying to install cygwin/xFree86. The install program runs to 99% but does not finish. It stops at 'Running...' the /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh Any suggestions? Wayne Harpenau Sony Disc Manufacturing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cygwin Setup 99%
Wayne, While we can't expect everyone to do a thorough mailing list archive search before posting, we do at least expect them to look at the posts from today. You problem has been reported before, and was, in fact, reported again today: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00134.html The problem is known. You can just move /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh to /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh.done. Then, from a Cygwin bash shell run '/usr/XFree86/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh'. That should create the icons for you. The problem right now is that one of the utilities we use hangs when we run the script from setup.exe, but it does not hang when we run the script from a bash shell. The problem is being looked into. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install cygwin/xFree86. The install program runs to 99% but does not finish. It stops at 'Running...' the /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh Any suggestions? Wayne Harpenau Sony Disc Manufacturing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Cygwin Setup 99%
Make that /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh. I said /usr/XFree86/... below. Harold Harold L Hunt II wrote: Wayne, While we can't expect everyone to do a thorough mailing list archive search before posting, we do at least expect them to look at the posts from today. You problem has been reported before, and was, in fact, reported again today: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00134.html The problem is known. You can just move /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh to /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh.done. Then, from a Cygwin bash shell run '/usr/XFree86/bin/XFree86-bin-icons.sh'. That should create the icons for you. The problem right now is that one of the utilities we use hangs when we run the script from setup.exe, but it does not hang when we run the script from a bash shell. The problem is being looked into. Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install cygwin/xFree86. The install program runs to 99% but does not finish. It stops at 'Running...' the /etc/postinstall/XFree86-bin-icons.sh Any suggestions? Wayne Harpenau Sony Disc Manufacturing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Setup Hangs in XFree86-bin-icons.sh
Laurence, This is a generic Cygwin problem, not related to XFree86. The problem is that cygpath hangs when called from a shell launched by setup.exe. This problem has been reported many times before. It started happening about a month or two ago. For a more detailed description, see my post below: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2003-10/msg00049.html Nobody seems interested in fixing this, myself included, so it will most likely remain broken. Harold L. D. Marks wrote: This is probably something that you already know, but in case you don't there are some problems in XFree86-bin-icons.sh. On my XP, it hangs. I went through various permutations, e.g. deleting the scripts from /etc/postinstall, /etc/preremove and /usr/X11R6/bin and reinstalling stuff without finding anything that works (short of completely removing this package). For reference, the date on the script is 9/29/2003. --- Laurence Marks Department of Materials Science and Engineering MSE Rm 2036 Cook Hall 2225 N Campus Drive Northwestern University Evanston, IL 60201, USA Tel: (847) 491-3996 Fax: (847) 491-7820 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.numis.northwestern.edu ---
