On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:34:54AM -0800, Robin Snyder wrote: > I'm unable to forward X despite the fact that I used the -X option with > ssh and ForwardX11 is set to yes in ssh_config on the remote machine (on > both machines, actually). I get the error message > > Error: Can't open display: > > which evidently means that ssh2 has failed to perform its usual magic in > setting up the display. A wander through google has comforted me with the > realization that I am not alone in having this problem, although it has > not given me any answers. Any idea what's happening? I saw nothing > obviously amiss in the output of ssh -v, but will append the output below > in case others see problems I missed.
The first thing to check when you get the above error is the contents of the DISPLAY environment variable. If SSH's forwarding magic is in place, it should be localhost:10.0 or similar. (The number varies but the hostname is always localhost.) The trouble could be as simple as some shell initialization overriding DISPLAY. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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