Hi Tony Not sure if this is still an active bug, but I just had a brush with it and found this thread. Maybe this will help you.
I had a working clusterssh install and life was good. I tried some fun things with my hardware, adding a second monitor, having problems getting it recognized, finally got it working by removing the video card and using the two display ports on the MB. BANG- got the Unexpected short read error and clusterssh refused to run. First I put everything back the way it was hardware-wise. Same error. I looked at my .Xauthority file and found half a dozen Cookie lines. Proceeding with the benefit of tremendous ignorance, I: Backed up the file. Used the xauth remove command to delete all but the couple of :0 lines. Tried cssh with SUCCESS. Rebooted to be sure it all survived - found one more added cookie line but everything still works. I suspect accumulated lines from displays no longer around are part of the problem. Cheers! --Dave -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1393483 Title: error reading .Xauthority To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/clusterssh/+bug/1393483/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
