Re: cannot open display localhost:10.0 - Solved Yet?

Hi

I think I would flip the sshd's LogLevel to DEBUG and see if it produces any clues.

Chris Jones

On 27 Jul 2010, at 01:04, miguel <michael.dengler@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the replies.
>
> I can confirm that it is SSH setting the display variable.
>
> If I login to the slackware box from a PC using putty or cygwin or
> from another linux box, and echo $DISPLAY...it is not set.
>
> If I use putty with X11 forwarding enabled and login and then echo
> $DISPLAY...localhost:10.0
>
> If I have an X server running on the PC (XMing) and then login to the
> slackware box using putty with X11 forwarding enabled...I can run any
> X program just fine.
>
> So...I'm not sure where to go next.
>
> M
>
>
> On Jul 25, 5:38 pm, Wayne Brehob <wa...@brehob.org> wrote:
>> Miguel,
>>
>> Have you confirmed that your display is set by SSH, and you are not
>> hard-coding "localhost:10.0" somewhere? SSH may use other displays (:
>> 11.0, :15.0, whatever) depending on what ports are in use. Just
>> checking for one possible explanation of the failures that would not
>> require an iSSH fix...
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> On Jul 25, 2010, at 5:18 PM, miguel wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>
>>> I've seen a few posts on this with no apparent resolution.
>>
>>> I can connect to my remote host (slackware 12.2), login, then run
>>> say...xterm. Aproximately 1 time in ten it is successful and I switch
>>> to the root X window and see xterm running. The rest of the time, I
>>> get cannot open display localhost:10.0. I monitor the logs on the
>>> remote host as I attempt to run X progs and see nothing out of the
>>> ordinary. I would really like to see a resolution to this issue.
>>
>>> Thanks
>>> M
>>
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