xterm Xt error: Can't open display:

[Igor Pechtchanski]

Chris,

Did you read the last part of the article at the link Alexander posted?
The one about server configuration?  You mentioned upgrading Linux, and
I'm not sure the default sshd_config comes with X11Forwarding enabled.
	Igor
P.S. Oh, and please instruct your mailer to not quote people's e-mail
addresses in your messages.

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, cryst wrote:

> Yes I've tried all combinitions of these. We have a proprietary version of
> xdisplay (winpro) which works... Also, as I said, it used to work until I
> upgraded in November or so. (I upgraded the Linux box at the same time
> though, so who knows where the problem lies).
>
> Chris Bruner
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jay Smith" <PROTECTED>
> To: <PROTECTED>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 1:10 PM
> Subject: Re: xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
>
>
> > Could it be related to mixing (as you showed in your post)
> >    DISPLAY=
> > and
> >    Export DISPLAY
> > ???
> >
> >
> > The example shows:
> >
> > $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
> > $ export DISPLAY
> > $ ssh -X remotehost
> >
> > or
> >
> > $ DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 ssh -X remotehost
> >
> > which is different from your original post.
> >
> > May you tried all the combinations already?
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > cryst said the following on 12/09/2003 01:06 PM:
> > > Thanks, but I've been there and it didn't help. (Hence this list).
> > >
> > > Any idea on how to diagnose this?
> > >
> > > Chris Bruner
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Alexander Gottwald" <PROTECTED>
> > > To: <PROTECTED>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 12:00 PM
> > > Subject: Re: xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, cryst wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>chris@gecko's password:
> > >>>Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> > >
> > >>>Last login: Tue Dec  9 12:29:56 2003 from 192.168.1.23
> > >>>chris@gecko chris $ xterm
> > >>>xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> > >>>chris@gecko chris $
> > >>>
> > >>>and the like.  This used to work.  Does anyone have any idea what is going
> > >>>wrong?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html#q-ssh-no-x11forwarding
> > >
> > >>bye
> > >>ago

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