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Re: Some servers do not forward X11, but I do not know why.

Subject: Re: Some servers do not forward X11, but I do not know why.
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 17:22:54 +0100
"Christopher L. Barnard" <cbar44@tsg.cbot.com> writes:

not only is xhost not used, the binary is deleted if it exists every night
on all servers by cron.

Ah. Satisfyingly BOFHish.

I have figured out what the problem is, but not how to solve it.  Running
the daemon in 3-layer-deep debug mode (-ddd) I discovered that the reason
the server is responding "Error: Can't open display:" is

debug2: bind port 6260: Address already in use

repeated 999 times, for the 999 ports from port 6000 to port 6999.  Then
the two messages
Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket.
debug1: x11_create_display_inet failed.

Oh. That's a first for me. Unfortunately, the number of ports to try
is hardcoded into channels.c. I guess you have to try to find out
what's eating your ports. 

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Leif Nixon                       -            Systems expert
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