What is the client that you are trying to open a window on ? Starting
with about Suse 9.3, the X server by default starts with the option
"-nolisten tcp", which means that the X server will not even listen for
connections over TCP. So, if you did a default install of Suse 9.3-Suse
10.1 on a workstation, the default behavior of that workstation is to not
listen for incoming X connections. Loggin in to a remote machine, setting
the DISPLAY, and launching an application will result in "nothing"
happening.
Check your local X server by "ps -ef | grep X" - if you see something like
this, you X server will not allow incoming connections.
/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :0 vt7
ssh will work, but the X you grew up with (at least us older guys :) will
not...
If you want to turn off this security feature, you will have to modify
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
# use such a line to enable the console login option in the kdm
menu
#:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7
# "reserve" means that the X server gets only started on request
(only kdm)
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -br vt7
Remove the "-nolisten tcp" option, and reboot...
Kevin
Kevin Gassiot
Advanced Systems Group
Visualization Systems Support
Veritas DGC
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Houston, Texas 77072
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José Luis Ricardo Chávez
Well,
the behavior seem's to be related to (my ?) network wide settings.
Using local account on my machine with ssh -X to_the_host -l username everything IS working.
So it's not (only?) a problem of the xterm, but might be related to personal settings. However, the home is located on a NFS share.
Can this be the reason ? (locking the same file ?)
José Luis Ricardo Chávez schrieb:
This is weird, if the DISPLAY variable is correctly set and the network services are up I would look for missing link libraries. What does 'ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm' shows?
- José Luis
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