ssh X11 forwarding problem

From: Sayantan Sur (surs.deltethis_at_cis.ohio-state.edu)
Date: 11/19/03 

Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:33:06 -0500

Hi,
        I installed RH 9 on two of my boxes. I am getting a weird problem w.r.t
forwarding X over :-( To make matters worse, there are only certain
applications which fail to launch (most X applications like xterm, xclock,
gedit, konsole, xemacs launch successfully). Here is a sample of what fails
:

[surs@c11:ssh] infiniburn
_X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't get address for localhost
infiniburn: cannot connect to X server localhost:11.0

        Peeking into /etc/ssh/sshd_config, I can see that X11 forwarding has been
set to "yes".

[surs@c11:ssh] sudo cat sshd_config | grep X11
#X11Forwarding no
X11Forwarding yes
#X11DisplayOffset 10
#X11UseLocalhost yes

        /etc/hosts also seems to have the correct entry for loopback ....

[surs@c11:ssh] head -n 3 /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.5 nowlab.cis.ohio-state.edu nowlab

        The $DISPLAY variable also seems to be set correctly...

[surs@c11:ssh] echo $DISPLAY
localhost:11.0
        
        I should also add that ssh -X c11 also gives the same problem. This
application which fails X11 launch "infiniburn" is a proprietary program,
and I do not know what it uses internally, but it launches correctly over
older RH 7.3 machines with the similar settings.

Thanks,
Sayantan. 

-- 
Sayantan Sur,
Graduate Research Assistant

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