I checked and Mavericks uses /tmp/launch*, so the change to 
/private/tmp/com.apple.launched* came with Yosemite.  I bet this is affecting 
other things besides just xauth.

                        -David Borman


> On Nov 18, 2014, at 8:47 AM, David Borman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’ve opened a ticket for this.  The problem is that at some point the local 
> location for $DISPLAY has changed, but xauth wasn’t updated to reflect that 
> change.  It used to be that it would start with /tmp/launch, but now it 
> starts with /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd, so the special code in xauth that 
> looks for /tmp/launch to treat it as a local socket no longer works.  
> Instead, it tries to resolve the path as a DNS name, and it is in the 
> getaddrinfo() call where the delay is happening.
> 
>                       -David Borman
> 
>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> We'll need a spindump to get a better idea of what is going on.
>> 
>> In one Terminal tab, do the following
>> 
>> sudo ls               # just doing this to enter your password ahead of time
>> sudo spindump xauth   # don't hit enter yet.
>> 
>> In the other tab, execute the hanging xauth call, then quickly switch to the 
>> other tab and hit enter to kick off the spindump.
>> 
>> Please send me the spindump or attach it to a bug report, and I'll take a 
>> look at why it's hanging.
>> 
>> --Jeremy
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 17, 2014, at 12:48, David Borman <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Since upgrading to Yosemite, I’ve been having delays in getting to a prompt 
>>> when starting up an xterm that does an ssh to a remote Linux box.  I’m 
>>> using "ssh -Y remote_host” from the xquartz applications menu, i.e.:
>>> 
>>>     xterm -geometry 80x60+600+0 -title “remote" -bg "#ebffeb" -e ssh -Y 
>>> remote.example.com
>>> 
>>> When I turn on the -vv flag to ssh, it pauses right after the xauth call:
>>> 
>>>> ...
>>>> debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
>>>> debug2: channel 0: send open
>>>> debug1: Requesting [email protected]
>>>> debug1: Entering interactive session.
>>>> debug2: callback start
>>>> debug2: Checking for xauth using /opt/X11/bin/xauth -f 
>>>> /var/folders/dv/rg72h7ch8xj_kk0059bnymr00000gn/T//xauth_test exit > 
>>>> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
>>>> 
>>>> debug2: x11_get_proto: /opt/X11/bin/xauth  list 
>>>> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OgudsWHJ2p/org.macosforge.xquartz:0 
>>>> 2>/dev/null
>>> 
>>> If I just cut-n-paste the xauth call into a local window, I get the same 
>>> delay, here are a couple of examples:
>>> 
>>>> sh-3.2$ date;/opt/X11/bin/xauth  list 
>>>> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OgudsWHJ2p/org.macosforge.xquartz:0;date
>>>> Mon Nov 17 14:26:27 CST 2014
>>>> Mon Nov 17 14:26:32 CST 2014
>>>> sh-3.2$ date;/opt/X11/bin/xauth  list 
>>>> /private/tmp/com.apple.launchd.OgudsWHJ2p/org.macosforge.xquartz:0;date
>>>> Mon Nov 17 14:34:57 CST 2014
>>>> Mon Nov 17 14:35:05 CST 2014
>>>> sh-3.2$ 
>>> 
>>> If I run “ssh -Y remote.example.com” from a local xterm, there is no delay, 
>>> and the xauth call is different:
>>> 
>>>  debug2: x11_get_proto: /opt/X11/bin/xauth  list :0 2>/dev/null
>>> 
>>> So this implies the DISPLAY variable is set differently between the two.
>>> 
>>> Has anyone else seen this?
>>> 
>>>             -David Borman
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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