On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:05 PM, Robert Brewer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm experiencing a weird problem with X11 forwarded via ssh from a CentOS >> 7 system to XQuartz 2.7.8 running on OS X 10.11.4. >> >> I can forward X using either "ssh -X" or "ForwardX11 yes" and it works >> fine. However, after some number of minutes (10? 15?) in that ssh session I >> can no longer start new clients, they get messages like "Could not connect >> to display localhost:10.0". If I log out of my ssh session and reconnect, I >> can start clients again with no problems. Needless to say, I spent a lot of >> time being confused because forwarding would work and then stop working for >> no reason (leading to lots of configuration tweaking) until I realized it >> was time-based. >> >> Any ideas on what could be causing this, or where I should look? I wonder >> if some socket or temp file is getting cleaned up? >> > > http://b.kl3in.com/2012/01/x11-display-forwarding-fails-after-some-time/ > > tl;dr: bump ForwardX11Timeout (note that it has an upper limit of just > under 600 hours, after which it wraps around a signed 32-bit value and ssh > will crash on startup). > > -- > brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine > associates > [email protected] > [email protected] > unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad > http://sinenomine.net > Thanks Brandon, this was precisely the solution I needed! I had tried some Googling on the topic, but apparently I didn't get the right keywords. -- Robert Brewer *http://robertsbrewer.wordpress.com/ <http://robertsbrewer.wordpress.com/>*
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