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Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed
- From: Lester Ingber <ingber at alumni dot caltech dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2012 21:46:19 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed
- References: <1311686439.44436.YahooMailNeo@web161429.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4E318140.7030602@dronecode.org.uk> <1311949646.24780.YahooMailNeo@web161423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4E36F3EA.1040404@dronecode.org.uk> <1312819650.57882.YahooMailNeo@web161424.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <1312822191.2359.YahooMailNeo@web161421.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4E427543.6060205@dronecode.org.uk>
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Jon TURNEY <jon.turney <at> dronecode.org.uk> writes:
>
> On 08/08/2011 17:49, Howard Feil wrote:
> > The OS of the target machines was CENTOS 5.5 and 5.4
> >
> > [root <at> MQWKS4 ~]# ssh -V
> > OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 01 Jul 2008
> [logs snipped]
>
> Thanks very much for the information. I am now able to reproduce this issue.
>
> This appears to be a change in the ssh client so that ForwardX11Timeout
> applies, even if untrusted authentication cookie generation failed (See [1]).
>
> It looks like this change first appeared in openssh 5.6, although I can't see
> it mentioned in the announce email.
>
> Note that if you had run ssh -v, you should have got a "Rejected X11
> connection after ForwardX11Timeout expired" explaining what was happening
>
> I guess I'll add something in the Cygwin/X FAQ about this.
Is there a work-around for this problem? I (too) often get timed out when
ssh'ing into sites on which I need X-windows (so I use ssh -Y). I have no such
problems when using a non-X console to ssh into these sites.
Thanks.
Lester
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