Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

[Wyatt Epp]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:

> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I
> get:
>
> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not
> generated
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Cannot open display:
>

Ah, I had this problem for months; it was driving me crazy!

I don't remember the specifics, but it had to to with some wankery of glibc
not working properly with xauth.  I'm pretty sure the fix is to update to
>=sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 or regress glibc back a few ticks.

Regards,
Wyatt