xorg 7.2 install and remote ssh

Wesley Shields wxs at atarininja.org
Thu May 24 17:58:57 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:41:38PM +0200, Henri-Pierre Charles wrote:
>  Hello list, I did an xorg 7.2 upgrade
>  (My way is to pkg_delete -a then do a lot of pkg_add -r  on 
>  package-6-stable)
> 
>  The upgrade was ok. But I was unable to invoque an X client
>  remotely via ssh.
> 
>  Sympthom : ssh -v fail wiith a message "debug1: Remote: No xauth
>  program; cannot forward with spoofing."
> 
>  I did little research :
>  e:~/>strings /usr/bin/ssh |grep xauth
>  ../..
>  /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
>  ../...
> 
>  Oh damnit ssh is not aware that /usr/X11R6 is now /usr/local ! :-(
>  Bug ?
> 
>  Turn around:  cd /usr/X11R6/bin/; sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/xauth

The directions in UPDATING state that there needs to be a symlink from
/usr/X11R6 to /usr/local.

-- WXS


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