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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 2021 20:45:31 -1000
From:      "parv/freebsd" <parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remote (CentOS 8) X11 clients stop spawning on local (FreeBSD 12) X11 server over ssh after some time
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On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 8:18 PM parv/freebsd wrote:

I had started ssh -X connection 2+ days ago in X11 on FreeBSD 12-STABLE to
> CentOS 8.
> When I tried to run Firefox (on CentOS), it did not start & blurted ...
>
>   Unable to init server: Broadway display type is not supported:
> localhost:13.0
>   Error: cannot open display: localhost:13.0
>
> ... tried evince, did not start & barfed ...
>
>   Unable to init server: Cannot connect: Connection refused
>   Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display
>

Looking in other logs, I see that that time is much shorter around
2 hours 44 minutes when X11 connection stops working. ;-<

- parv

OTOH, on a few moments old connection Firefox & evince open respective
> window as expected.
>
> What is going locally and/or remotely that after some passage of time,
> clients fail to
> connect to $DISPLAY?
>

-- 

>



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