On 06/04/2016 07:33 AM, Dave Smith wrote: > 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.
Hi Dave, Thanks a nice piece of triage work - thank you! I haven't had a chance to independently validate it yet, but it sounds like you're nailed down the issue. Cheers, tony -- 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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
