Re: [gentoo-user] Display indirect login X app here?

[Jeremy McSpadden]

Rather than trying to ssh tunnel + X, why not vpn into one of the machines, that would allow you to be local 
and you can then ssh to each machine on the lan from your local.

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Jeremy McSpadden
deface@×××××××××××.net




On May 22, 2011, at 2:01 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:

> Hi,
>   I'm on a Gentoo box here and ssh'ed into a remote network at my
> folks house. When I log into the Gentoo machine that the router points
> to (my dad's desktop) I have no problem displaying an X app
> (gnome-terminal for instance) running on that machine here on my
> screen. However when I ssh from that machine into another machine on
> the network I am unable to get an X app to display here due to dbus
> and/or X problems:
>
> mark@gandalf ~ $ ssh -X -Y -C laptop
> Password:
> Last login: Sun May 22 03:50:07 PDT 2011 from 192.168.1.2 on pts/0
> mark@laptop1 ~ $ konsole
> <unknown program name>(4454)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the
> D-Bus session server:  "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally
> with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
> "
>
> <unknown program name>(4453)/: KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.
>
> mark@laptop1 ~ $ systemsettings
> systemsettings(4457): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus
> session server:  "/usr/bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the
> following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed.
> "
>
> systemsettings(4456): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.
>
> mark@laptop1 ~ $ su -
> Password:
> laptop1 ~ # rc-update show
>               acpid |      default
>            bootmisc | boot
>             checkfs | boot
>           checkroot | boot
>               clock | boot
>         consolefont | boot
>                dbus |      default
>                hald |      default
>            hostname | boot
>             keymaps | boot
>               local |      default nonetwork
>          localmount | boot
>             modules | boot
>              net.lo | boot
>            netmount |      default
>                ntpd |      default
>           rmnologin | boot
>                sshd |      default
>           syslog-ng |      default
>      udev-postmount |      default
>             urandom | boot
>          vixie-cron |      default
>                 xdm |      default
> laptop1 ~ #
>
>
>   Is there an obvious fix to this? All the machines are ssh
> configured to do X forwarding and when the laptop was here (my mom's
> laptop which I configured for her) I was able to ssh into it and
> display stuff so I assume it's something to do with the machine in the
> middle?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
>
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