Networking :: ssh - X connection to localhost:10.0 broken



Hello,

I access a DSL 0.8.3 through a SSH session, but whenever I try to use MC or to launch a X application the response is
"X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)."

I tried this with users : root, dsl, and a new user
and have the same problem with all of them.

Looking for this message on other boards I found so many differents answers and tests to do that I feel it will take a too long time to do all this tests.

Does somebody have a short answer to this ?

Thanks,

Michel.
this means you are trying to launch an X application, this would require an Xserver,  and tunnelling enabled. what are you using to connect to the dsl machine (ssh client and OS)
Yes, using a SSH connection to the DSL "server" I hope to display a slideshow on the DSL "server".

On DSL, it's ok to start the slideshow at boot time, but I try to restart the slideshow remotely after each (remote) update, so I need to launch a X application remotely.

The client is Putty running on Windows 2000 (yes !)

Thanks,

Michel.
As this question don't inspire anyone ... I search an found a solution (tested with DSL 0.8.3)

1°) Configure the SSH connection,
We have to do the SSH connection with same user as the one used to launch X11 on the DSL 'server'
-> user dsl

On DSL server, running a root shell, I have to change the dsl password.
$sudo su
$passwd dsl
-> new password for 'dsl'

add
/etc/init.d/ssh start to /opt/bootlocal.sh
(if you launch ssh start from shell, you will not be able to keep a X11 application on the screen after disconnecting)

add
/etc/passwd
/etc/shadow
to /home/dsl/filetool.lst

And backup this config using DSLxxx

2°) make a SSH connection to DSL with user 'dsl'

3°) Have the env variable DISPLAY designing the X11 launched on ssh server.
-> export DISPLAY=":0.0"
Then I can launch a X11 application from SSH session, and the X11 application is displayed on server.

But ... when I disconnect from ssh, the application is stopped

4°) Launch the X11 application with the '&' parameter to have that one running in background and stay on screen when leaving session

So ... to launch dillo on DSL 'server' from a SSH client logged in with 'dsl' user
$export DISPLAY=":0.0"
$dillo &

Then if you disconnect from session, Dillo stay on screen.


5°) to kill dillo when reconnecting, type in a bash script :
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#!/bin/bash
pspid=`ps|grep dillo|cut -d" " -f3|sed -e 's/ //'`
echo "ID:$pspid"
if [ "$pspid" != "" ]; then
 kill $pspid
 echo "dillo killed"
else
 echo "dillo is not on screen"
fi
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I can now display what I want on a remote PC with just DSL on a USB memory key.
I will used that config to display information for workers on some large screens inside our factory.
have you tried Xwin32? it is an xserver that runs on windows. it will allow you to do what you need.
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