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ssh -X but no X11 forwarding

807557Jul 3 2008 — edited Jul 7 2008
The X server is on Solaris 9 (fonzie) and the GUI applications that I want to run are on a remote Solaris 10 computer (jesus). Both computers are on my local network.

This was working before, but I've just returned after being away from the home office for 8 months. During that time a conventional router was replaced with a VPN router, but I had no need for remote GUI applications while I was away.

A typical session follows:
fonzie% ssh -X jesus
Enter passphrase for key '/home/alan/.ssh/id_rsa': 
...
jesus% xemacs &
[1] 746
jesus% ps -Al | grep emacs 
 0 S    100   746   739   0  40 20        ?   2609        ? pts/1       0:00 xemacs-2
jesus% kill 746
jesus% 
Lisp backtrace follows:

  # (unwind-protect ...)
  make-device(x nil)
  # bind (display)
  make-x-device(nil)
  init-x-win()
  # bind (debugger debug-on-error command-line-args-left)
  command-line()
  # (condition-case ... . ((t (byte-code "       " ... 1))))
  # bind (error-data)
  normal-top-level()
  # (condition-case ... . error)
  # (catch top-level ...)

[1]    Terminated           xemacs
jesus% 
xemacs failed to appear on fonzie's display.

Alan Feldstein
Cosmic Horizon
http://www.alanfeldstein.com/
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