From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 21:46:15 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5727216A469 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:46:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from mx-outbound01.easydns.com (mailout.easydns.com [205.210.42.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3371913C45A for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:46:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists-fbsd@shadypond.com) Received: from lilypad.shadypond.com (69-12-173-117.static.humboldt1.com [69.12.173.117]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx-outbound01.easydns.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30347F8A for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:46:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ripple.shadypond.com (ripple.shadypond.com [192.168.1.13]) by lilypad.shadypond.com (postoffice) with ESMTP id 739AAFA9CD for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:46:12 +0000 (UTC) From: Pollywog To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:41:01 -0700 References: <200707090103.49950.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> In-Reply-To: <200707090103.49950.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707101441.01594.lists-fbsd@shadypond.com> Subject: Re: X11 forwarding problems in FreeBSD 6.2 - no xauth data? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:46:15 -0000 On Sunday 08 July 2007 18:03:49 Pollywog wrote: > I am having some problems with X11 forwarding. I can do X11 forwarding via > ssh between two machines running Linux, but if I try to do this from > FreeBSD (KDE) to either of the Linux machines, it only works if I use > startx to start KDE on the fbsd machine (a laptop). If I start KDE from > kdm, I get errors that go like this when I start the KDE app on the remote > host running Linux: pollywog@slider:~$ kate > Xlib: connection to "localhost:11.0" refused by server > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key > kate: cannot connect to X server localhost:11.0 I just did 'ssh' to one of the Linux hosts and when the connection was made, I got this: Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Does this possibly have something to do with the problem I mentioned in my initial post in this thread? I am going to Google that error and see if I can find something.