Re: 6.0-release remote x application failure to open display
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]
Re: 6.0-release remote x application failure to open display
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? first, always use the -X or -Y option for X11 forwarding. regardless of whether you think it needs to be specified, good habit in case the environment changes unexpectedly. next, check the environment after login (setenv in tcsh), make sure that the DISPLAY variable is being set. should be somwhere along the lines of localhost:10.0 or higher.. then, whereis xauth and make sure it's installed. ssh uses this to set up said X display, and isn't installed when X applications are compiled or installed from binaries (it's in xorg-clients iirc.) These are fairly general, but are a good start. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.0-release remote x application failure to open display
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 dmesg is attached (if it makes it through the list). Thanks, Ben Kaduk dmesg.boot Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
