Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 10:14:05 +0100 From: Bengt Ahlgren <bengt.ahlgren@ri.se> To: Ross Alexander <rwa@athabascau.ca> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ssh -Y forwarding seems to be damaged of late Message-ID: <uh7efy57aua.fsf@P142s.sics.se> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703091114310.92963@autopsy.pc.athabascau.ca> (Ross Alexander's message of "Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:22:20 -0700") References: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703081214100.46118@autopsy.pc.athabascau.ca> <uh7r327a2lf.fsf@P142s.sics.se> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1703091114310.92963@autopsy.pc.athabascau.ca>
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Ross Alexander <rwa@athabascau.ca> writes: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Bengt Ahlgren wrote: > >> Ross Alexander <rwa@athabascau.ca> writes: >> >>> I have notice over the last month or two that I don't seem to >>> be able to get the VirtualBox UI to come up on an X11 forwarding >>> ssh connection. I'm seeing the same problem with libreoffice. >>> [...] > >> I don't have a solution to your problem, but I'd just like to inform you >> that Virtualbox works for me over "ssh -Y" to a server with: >> >> FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE (GENERIC) #1 r314204: Fri Feb 24 15:28:33 CET 2017 >> virtualbox-ose-5.1.14_2 >> virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.1.14 >> >> this is with the display on a client with kde desktop and: >> >> FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE (P142s10) #12 r314314M: Sun Feb 26 23:27:14 CET 2017 >> >> There are some complaints, but it works: >> >> $ virtualbox >> debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 3 win 65536 max 16384 >> debug1: client_request_x11: request from ::1 12262 >> debug1: channel 1: new [x11] >> debug1: confirm x11 >> xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path /usr/local/share/X11/xkb >> Qt WARNING: Qt: Failed to create XKB context! >> Qt WARNING: Use QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT environmental variable to provide >> an additional search path, add ':' as separator to provide several >> search paths and/or make sure that XKB configuration data directory >> contains recent enough contents, to update please see >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/ . >> libGL error: failed to open drm device: No such file or directory >> libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 >> libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so >> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast >> Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile > > Bengt, > > Thanks for the data point. Yes, I too got the "Failed to create XKB > context" and the fix is to install xkeyboard-config-2.20 AFAIR. The > libGL errors are certainly interesting, I don't see those. Will dig > down on that. Thanks for the pointer to xkeyboard-config! The libGL errors don't seem to affect the functionality, but I have only tried with a text console. The client does run intel graphics, so it might be some confusion due to that. Bengt
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