https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712683 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=712683#c0 Summary: disable ipv6 break ssh X11 tunnel Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Milestone 3 Platform: All OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: diego.ercolani@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0 When you disable ipv6 from the yast2 network, system correctly remove the assignation of ipv6 addresses from everywhere but there is an annoying bug in openssh that break the possibility to make X11 tunnels because it seems that ssh try to bind X11 tunnel to an ipv6 address even with ipv6 disabled causing this kind of message in /var/log/messages: Aug 17 16:47:28 franz2011 sshd[6300]: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket. this can avoided configuring correctly the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config with the parameter: AddressFamily inet and restarting sshd. This is done in according to this bug reported to debian bugsystem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=422327#20 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.