ssh -Y forwarding seems to be damaged of late

[Bengt Ahlgren]

Ross Alexander <rwa at athabascau.ca> writes:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Bengt Ahlgren wrote:
>
>> Ross Alexander <rwa at athabascau.ca> writes:
>>
>>> I have notice over the last month or two that I don't seem to
>>> be able to get the VirtualBox UI to come up on an X11 forwarding
>>> ssh connection.  I'm seeing the same problem with libreoffice.
>>> [...]
>
>> I don't have a solution to your problem, but I'd just like to inform you
>> that Virtualbox works for me over "ssh -Y" to a server with:
>>
>> FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE (GENERIC) #1 r314204: Fri Feb 24 15:28:33 CET 2017
>> virtualbox-ose-5.1.14_2
>> virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.1.14
>>
>> this is with the display on a client with kde desktop and:
>>
>> FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE (P142s10) #12 r314314M: Sun Feb 26 23:27:14 CET 2017
>>
>> There are some complaints, but it works:
>>
>> $ virtualbox
>> debug1: client_input_channel_open: ctype x11 rchan 3 win 65536 max 16384
>> debug1: client_request_x11: request from ::1 12262
>> debug1: channel 1: new [x11]
>> debug1: confirm x11
>> xkbcommon: ERROR: failed to add default include path /usr/local/share/X11/xkb
>> Qt WARNING: Qt: Failed to create XKB context!
>> Qt WARNING: Use QT_XKB_CONFIG_ROOT environmental variable to provide
>> an additional search path, add ':' as separator to provide several
>> search paths and/or make sure that XKB configuration data directory
>> contains recent enough contents, to update please see
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/ .
>> libGL error: failed to open drm device: No such file or directory
>> libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
>> libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
>> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
>> Qt WARNING: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile
>
> Bengt,
>
> Thanks for the data point.  Yes, I too got the "Failed to create XKB
> context" and the fix is to install xkeyboard-config-2.20 AFAIR.  The
> libGL errors are certainly interesting, I don't see those.  Will dig
> down on that.

Thanks for the pointer to xkeyboard-config!

The libGL errors don't seem to affect the functionality, but I have only
tried with a text console.  The client does run intel graphics, so it
might be some confusion due to that.

Bengt