6.0-release remote x application failure to open display

[Lowell Gilbert]

"Ben Kaduk" <minimarmot at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I think this is probably a simple question, but I do not recall having
> any difficulties on 5.2.1 or 5.3-beta3, which are the other versions
> that I had run on this box.
> 
> I recently have performed a clean install of 6.0-release on this
> machine, on a new hard drive, and then copied over the data and some
> configuration files (ssh keys, etc.) from the old hard drive (it is a
> slow machine, so I didn't want to build current).  Having done so, I
> then tried to login remotely to this machine and run xmms (it is
> mostly used as my "music server"), which failed with this error:
> ** CRITICAL **: Unable to open display
> I have tried with passing the -X flag, and with passing the -Y flag to
> ssh, but there is no change in behaviour.
> Is there something that I have forgotten to enable, or is this unexpected?
> 
> Some information about the computer:
> kaduk at pleonasm$ uname -a
> FreeBSD pleonasm.mooo.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb
> 20 01:22:19 UTC 2006    
> root at pleonasm.urh.uiuc.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PLEONASM  i386

Use higher levels of debug output, and let ssh itself tell you what it
thinks the problem is.  Also, compare the behaviour to other X
applications, like xterm.