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Date:      Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:44:01 -0600
From:      Lane <lane@joeandlane.com>
To:        Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box
Message-ID:  <200612161744.01856.lane@joeandlane.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061216233254.GF4409@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
References:  <200612161224.14708.lane@joeandlane.com> <200612161350.12657.lane@joeandlane.com> <20061216233254.GF4409@rescomp.berkeley.edu>

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On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:32, you wrote:
> > I've used this "ssh -X" that you mention. This works fine for "userland"
> > programs, but in order to troubleshoot my particular issue I'd need to be
> > logged in as root.  When I try to "su" remotely to run the command I get:
> >
> > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> > X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
> I think what's going on is that X puts some authentication information
> in your home directory: ~/.Xauthority. You might try:
> $ su -m
>
> That will preserve your environment (including $HOME). Now when X goes
> looking for the ~/.Xauthority, it will find the one sshd set up in your
> user home directory.
>
Well, Chris, that was a great suggestion!

I can, in fact, run a gui root process on the remote machine, now.

Unfortunately I still can't run qemu so that I can get the console.  I get:

X Error of failed request:  BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request:  25 (X_SendEvent)
  Resource id in failed request:  0x3e
  Serial number of failed request:  18
  Current serial number in output stream:  21


Any advice on how to setup the remote (headless, mouseless, and keyboardless) 
server to run X?  My brain is fried trying to track down a HOWTO, and the 
wiki is just a half millimeter left of useless.

Thanks for your input!

Lane
> > I might try logging in locally as root and see what happens ....
> >
> > But in the long run I think that if I could understand how to grant
> > myself an actual X session on the remote box then I could figure out how
> > to do this and potentially other stuff.
> >
> > Thanks for any information you might share.
> >
> > lane
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