Remote login, then nothing happens

[Andy Schmidgall]

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>>(and then a bunch of options)
>>
>>    
>>
>>>cygwin-prompt> DISPLAY=:0 ssh -Y user@server
>>>do you then get a
>>>Password:
>>>prompt?
>>>
>>>If you do, and you enter your linux password, do you then get a prompt
>>>on your linux box? If not, this question is probably not related to X
>>>at all. Contact e.g. another cygwin list.
>>>      
>>>
>>I get a password prompt, but after entering my password, nothing else
>>happens. I do not get a command prompt after entering my password.
>>    
>>
>
>Does the same happen if you run "ssh -x" (note the lowercase) without
>DISPLAY= and -Y?  If so, you may indeed have a general ssh issue -- try to
>get a working prompt first, and then set up X forwarding.
>
>  
>
ssh -x (lowercase) works just fine. I enter my password and immediately 
receive a command prompt.

>One more place to check is your startup scripts on the remote machine.
>Do they change the value of DISPLAY (they shouldn't -- it should be left
>at whatever ssh sets it to)?  Do they try to launch an X client if DISPLAY
>is set (that could be what's causing the apparent "hang")?
>	Igor
>[*] Well, there are more configuration options to check, but the two
>things above are required regardless of the configuration.
>  
>
I don't see any scripts that would change the DISPLAY variable on the 
server. Also, if I ssh directly in to the server, "echo $DISPLAY" shows 
that the variable is empty. Should this have a value?

If I kill the shell process on my windows machine, the xterm throws an 
error: "Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 
forwarding." and then logs me in to the server with a text command 
prompt. I'm not sure if this is important or anything.

Thanks for the help so far.

-Andy

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