Oh, BTW ufw is disabled on both boxes for the test. On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > I used to regularly do ssh -X user@machine or ssh -Y user@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@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 >> >> >> > > Last login: Mon Oct 15 16:37:44 2012 from sunfish.thiel.org >> larry@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@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@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@sunfish:~$ gedit >> larry@sunfish:~$ >> > > Anyone know where to look or how to fix fogtest? > > -- > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry > > Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to > multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or > CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded > message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the > recipient list and message body. > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, always use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy) and not To: or CC:. Remove all addresses from the message body before sending a Forwarded message. This can prevent spy programs capturing addresses from the recipient list and message body.