ssh -Y question

[der.hans]

Am 16. Oct, 2012 schwätzte Dazed_75 so:

> I used to regularly do ssh -X user at machine or ssh -Y user at machine so I
> could run a graphical program on the remote machine and have the display on
> the machine I was sitting at.  In fact, I used to do this at installfests
> from my laptop (lapdog2) to the headless PXE server (fogtest) right next to
> me.  That stopped working months ago and I have not been able to figure out
> why or how to fix it.  Here is a sample of what I get:
>
> larry at hammerhead:~$ ssh -Y fogtest
>> Linux fogtest 2.6.32-41-generic-pae #91-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 13 12:00:09 UTC
>> 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
>> Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS
>>
>> <snip>

echo $DISPLAY

Do you get something like localhost:10.0?

ciao,

der.hans

> Last login: Mon Oct 15 16:37:44 2012 from sunfish.thiel.org
>> larry at fogtest:~$ gedit
>> GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes
>> are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale
>> NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
>> information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to
>> connect to socket /tmp/dbus-sjFuIo1Vhr: Connection refused)
>> ^C
>> larry at fogtest:~$
>>
>
> As you can see, the ssh connection is fine but using a graphical program
> like gedit does not. So I was making another attempt today (different
> target) and it worked:
>
> larry at hammerhead:~$ ssh -Y sunfish
>> Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64)
>>
>>  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
>>
>> 22 packages can be updated.
>> 12 updates are security updates.
>>
>> Last login: Tue Aug 28 21:27:53 2012 from hammerhead.thiel.org
>> larry at sunfish:~$ gedit
>> larry at sunfish:~$
>>
>
> Anyone know where to look or how to fix fogtest?
>
>

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