X forwarding

[Pierre Abbat]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, J. Paul Reed wrote:
>This is probably a commonly asked question...that, or I'm missing
>something significant, here.
>
>I'm using an OpenSSH 2.2.1p4 client, with OpenSSH 1.2.3 for the server;
>I'm trying to display a remote X app back to my desktop; everytime I try
>it, I get:
>
>remote.server$ xcalc  
>channel 0: istate 4 != open
>channel 0: ostate 64 != open
>X connection to remote.server:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
>shutdown).
>
>Is this an xauth thing, or an incompatibility thing, or?

Check your XAUTHORITY environment variable. It should be /tmp/ssh-*/cookies. If
it's ~/.Xauthority, try changing it. Also try running sshd in debug mode on a
different port and see whether it is forwarding X.

phma