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On Saturday 11 February 2006 02:49, John N. Alegre wrote:

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salamanca:~ jna$ ssh -X -l iphouse libros <snip> What is xauth data? Is this what is causing the long hang? This was working fine before the upgrade.

Yes, and it will be working fine again when you exit from your 'su' session

The Warning message means that the current session doesn't have any X authentication data to send to ssh, and your prompt strongly suggests that you are running as root. My guess is that you became root with 'su' in a user session, so you can't even run X programs locally in that shell

This is not the case. In more detail ... I have one SuSE box with many users (all me). I use the ssh -X to log into that SuSE Box from either a Red Hat box or one of two OS X boxes. ( The OS X boxes are running Mac X Windows. From a terminal on the remote machine I log on to the SuSE box as one of the SuSE users. I then want to bring up KMail on the remote machine and send mail. The remote machine is always the user I am logged on to that machine as ... never su. I have exited from the remote shell and tried it again with the same results. As I said this was working fine before the last update to 9.1 Pro. Original Question ... ################################################ I did an online update of a SuSE 9.1 Pro system yesterday. I did noticed one of the packages updated had to do with X Windows. After the upgrade when I do a ... ssh -X -l someuser SuSEbox I get the login but then there is a LONG hang (like 5 min) before the shell comes up. salamanca:~ jna$ ssh -X -l iphouse libros Password: @#$#@#$ Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. Last login: Fri Feb 10 19:29:45 2006 from salamanca.johnalegre.net Have a lot of fun... Long hang here before i get the bash prompt ... Eventually I get the bash prompt ... iphouse@libros:~> What is xauth data? Is this what is causing the long hang? This was working fine before the upgrade. All help welcome. john ################################################