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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:36:18 +0900 (JST)
From:      Tod McQuillin <devin@spamcop.net>
To:        "Eric W. Bates" <ericx@vineyard.net>
Cc:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems with emacs and X
Message-ID:  <20080121113459.I6725@plexi.pun-pun.prv>
In-Reply-To: <4792733B.7010409@vineyard.net>
References:  <4792733B.7010409@vineyard.net>

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On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Eric W. Bates wrote:

> Of about a dozen machines this problem is unique to only one of them.
>
> When I ssh into this machine and run xterm, I have no trouble. However, when 
> I try to run emacs it says:
>
> emacs: Cannot connect to X server localhost:11.0
>
> I have rebuilt emacs and ALL the dependencies twice.
>
> portupgrade -fR emacs
>
> Any suggestions?

Try using the -X or -Y options to ssh; it could be that this host's 
sshd_config is set up not to forward X connections by default.
-- 
Tod McQuillin



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