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From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: ssh + X11 forwarding = a hung ssh process
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In article <20020530184031.C229@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>,
Jose M. Alcaide <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 09:10:08AM -0700, John Polstra wrote:
> > I've been seeing a strange problem involving ssh's X11 forwarding
> > on FreeBSD-stable systems.  Here's the scenario.  From my desktop
> > machine I use ssh to run an X11 application on a different machine.
> > The application appears on my desktop's screen as expected, and it
> > works fine.  Now I exit the application.  But the ssh command does not
> > exit; it remains hung until I kill it.
> >
> > [SNIP]
> 
> Same here. I found that the problem only manifests itself when using the
> SSH2 protocol.

Aha, you are right!  If I force version 1 of the protocol, the
problem does not occur.

John
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  John Polstra
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