gene heskett <[email protected]> writes: > On Wednesday, February 23, 2011 04:30:52 pm Adam Jackson did opine: > >> On 2/22/11 11:11 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> > Where can I find a good tutorial on making this Just Work(TM) when the >> > user numbers are disparate, as they will be between a debian based >> > system and the rest of the world. I did have this working 6 months >> > ago, but every time *buntu updates the ssh stuff on the LTS releases, >> > it all goes away again. >> >> You're going to have to be a lot more precise than that about what kind >> of problems you're seeing. I routinely ssh forward X connections >> between accounts with differing UIDs on different machines, nothing more >> complicated than ssh -Y needed. >> >> - ajax > > > In this case, emc is not running on the target, ubuntu machine. I launch > it from this ssh -Y login, see the initial splash image, which goes away > after its initial timeout, and the cli then reports it couldn't get a > screen, so the whole thing exits.
But other X applications (e.g. xterm) works? > The failure messages are somewhat less than worthless (to me at any rate) > but it does write a pair of files: You could include the error message anyway. Maybe they mean something to someone. [...] > ================= > RUN_IN_PLACE=no > EMC2_DIR= [...] > DISPLAY=axis Hopefully this is not the X11 DISPLAY actually used by emc, but means something else... [...] > Now, the fix that did make it work before is still there: > > gene@shop:~/emc2/configs/genes-mill$ echo $DISPLAY > localhost:10.0 I assume you haven't set that yourself, but that it gets automatically set by ssh? > So, do I need to add something to this machine? Its running pclos-32 bit, > 2010, uptodate except for tar as 1.24 and 1.25 are broken and will not work > with amanda. > > What happens if I change $DISPLAY to = coyote.coyote.den:10.0 > That is this machine, or I could use this machines IP too, but then either > marries it to this machine only, not a real fix IMO. I assume coyote.coyote.den is the machine running the X server, rather than the machine running emc? Then you probably want coyote.coyote.den:0.0, but you would need to set up proper access controls (etc.) eirik _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
