https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714950 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=714950#c0 Summary: openSSH - error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket +(solution) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Factory Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: wharms@bfs.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Fungus/8.0 (X11; U; C64 6510; de; 8bit) ssh failed to forward an X11 session suddenly. "ssh -v user@host" shows no problems (that should be fixed also). debug1: Enabling compression at level 6. debug1: Authentication succeeded (keyboard-interactive). debug1: channel 0: new [client-session] debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com debug1: Entering interactive session. debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug1: Sending environment. debug1: Sending env LANG = de_DE.UTF-8 Last login: Tue Aug 30 13:57:33 2011 from localhost Have a lot of fun... A look into /var/log/messages shows: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket I googled and found this hint: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-internet/... i did: sysctl net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0 and it worked again. The very odd think is that used to work before and suddenly it stoped working. So i was unable to see what caused the problem. Reproducible: Didn't try 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.