ssh -Y question

[Dazed_75]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 4:12 PM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> 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


Yes, both on the machine that works (sunfish) and the one that does not
(fogtest).


>
>  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/<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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