SSHD errors: will not forward X11 connections

[m.apitz at oclcpica.org]

El día Sunday, June 25, 2006 a las 10:05:03PM -0500, Andrew escribió:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 6.1 machine at home that I use for remote backups, and
> sort of an application server for my home network. I occasionally run
> program with the X display forwarded to my laptop. Simple setup, has
> always worked great, etc, etc.
> 
> Just last week, I went to login and run a program and I received the
> following error (in /var/log/messages):
> 
>     sshd[25306]: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display
>     socket.
> 
> Now, not to (intentionally) irritate anyone, but I haven't made any
> changes in regards to the setup on either end of the connection that I'm
> aware of. The only change at all that I've recently made, is that I
> switch shells on the remote box (to zsh). I tried changing back to bash,
> (my original setup), and the problem persists. 
> 
> The permissions for sshd are:
> 
>     -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  168488 May  6 22:58 /usr/sbin/sshd
> 
> which looks correct to me. I really haven't a clue where to begin with
> this one, besides a backup and re-install, which is an option, but is
> also a rather large pain. 
> 
> Suggestions?

Truss o strace down the SSH daemon to see what the underlying problem
for "error: Failed to allocate..." really is.

	matthias
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