From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 03:07:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34EB316A419 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:07:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from devin@spamcop.net) Received: from mail.distalzou.net (203.141.139.231.static.zoot.jp [203.141.139.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3E5313C4EA for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from devin@spamcop.net) Received: from plexi.pun-pun.prv ([192.168.7.29]) by mail.distalzou.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JGmWJ-000P7D-9m; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:36:19 +0900 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:36:18 +0900 (JST) From: Tod McQuillin X-X-Sender: devin@plexi.pun-pun.prv To: "Eric W. Bates" In-Reply-To: <4792733B.7010409@vineyard.net> Message-ID: <20080121113459.I6725@plexi.pun-pun.prv> References: <4792733B.7010409@vineyard.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with emacs and X X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:07:15 -0000 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