[Gllug] X problem

[Khusro Jaleel]

Maybe you have X11Forwarding disabled in your /etc/ssh/sshd_config, just as
John said? I recently started seeing this message too, and I think that was
the problem.

I'm not sure about it, but I usually also set my X server to accept remote
connections, maybe this is also disabled for you? In your
'/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc', check for 'nolisten tcp' and remove it if it's
there. There may be some other files as well in /etc/X11 that use 'nolisten
tcp' and one of those may be the culprit, such as your gdm or kdm startup
files.

Hope you get it working,
Khusro

On 11/5/06, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > loggin into a remote host thus:
> >
> > ssh -X adrian at remotehost
> >
> > Then running 'xterm' and get this:
> >
> > xterm Xt error: Can't open display:
> > xterm:  DISPLAY is not set
> >
> > I've never had this problem before - ssh has usually handled all the
> > forwarding stuff. And how do I set the DISPLAY when I am in a box behind
> > NAT and don't have a real world IP Addr?
>
> Assuming you intend to piggy-back X over ssh it doesn't matter about the
> NAT bit.  Try adding the "-v" switch to your invocation of ssh.  That
> may well tell you why the DISPLAY variable isn't getting set.  It may be
> that it's disabled on your target host - in /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>
> HTH
> John
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