Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:44:13 +0200 From: m.apitz@oclcpica.org To: Andrew <andrew.chace@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SSHD errors: will not forward X11 connections Message-ID: <20060626054413.GB36779@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <1151291104.2354.9.camel@LatitudeFC5.network> References: <1151291104.2354.9.camel@LatitudeFC5.network>
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El día Sunday, June 25, 2006 a las 10:05:03PM -0500, Andrew escribió: > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 6.1 machine at home that I use for remote backups, and > sort of an application server for my home network. I occasionally run > program with the X display forwarded to my laptop. Simple setup, has > always worked great, etc, etc. > > Just last week, I went to login and run a program and I received the > following error (in /var/log/messages): > > sshd[25306]: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display > socket. > > Now, not to (intentionally) irritate anyone, but I haven't made any > changes in regards to the setup on either end of the connection that I'm > aware of. The only change at all that I've recently made, is that I > switch shells on the remote box (to zsh). I tried changing back to bash, > (my original setup), and the problem persists. > > The permissions for sshd are: > > -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 168488 May 6 22:58 /usr/sbin/sshd > > which looks correct to me. I really haven't a clue where to begin with > this one, besides a backup and re-install, which is an option, but is > also a rather large pain. > > Suggestions? Truss o strace down the SSH daemon to see what the underlying problem for "error: Failed to allocate..." really is. matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC PICA GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> - w http://www.oclcpica.org/ http://guru.UnixLand.de/
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