[Wylug-help] xauth problem from laptop

[A J Cole]

>Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:59:12 +0100 (BST)
>From: John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk>
>
>On Tue, 23 Jun 2009, A J Cole wrote:
>
>>> I have noticed that I only get this from my laptop when I use it in Leeds.
>>> If I use it in Doncaster, which is the norm as I also have a desktop in
>>> Leeds, eveything works fine. I am connecting to the same servers from both
>>> locations using a private WAN
>>>
>>> None of my other linux boxes have the problem at all.
>>
>> That wouild indicate that the authorization entry for that display is not
>> in the authorization file.  How is/was the entry created?  Remember that
>> its display (location) specific.
>
>But he's using ssh, so the xauth is handled by ssh, and the connection overtly
>comes from localhost as a result of tunnelling, surely?

Mae Culpa (in a 20+ year? time-warp).  You are indeed correct but
the warning indicated an xauth warning breaking the startup scripting
(as Jason said).  So I would still be looking at the differences between
working and not worning and their settings.

Andrew