From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4146 invoked by alias); 1 Aug 2011 18:44:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 4136 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Aug 2011 18:44:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:43:44 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.8]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 01 Aug 2011 19:43:42 +0100 Message-ID: <4E36F3EA.1040404@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:44:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110714 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Howard Feil CC: cygwin-xfree Subject: Re: X server shutdown or killed/destroyed References: <1311686439.44436.YahooMailNeo@web161429.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <4E318140.7030602@dronecode.org.uk> <1311949646.24780.YahooMailNeo@web161423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1311949646.24780.YahooMailNeo@web161423.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-08/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 On 29/07/2011 15:27, Howard Feil wrote: > > Thanks for the reply. > > So far ssh -Y seems to be doing the trick. Good. I'd like to know a bit more about why this is happening, though, so if you could share the OS and sshd version which is running on the machine you are sshd-ing to, and the output when you connect using ssh -vvv -X, that would be interesting. > On 26/07/2011 14:20, Howard Feil wrote: >> I have installed cygwin on several windows XP 32bit machines. To do the install I used the defaults and then installed all of X11 and >> Networks. After a little while > > about 20 minutes? > >> when opening a new windows, I get the >> error: >> >> >> The application 'gedit' lost its connection to the display localhost:11.0; >> most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed >> the application. >> >> It doesn't matter what I do next, nothing simple makes the x-server come back alive. >> >> This >> is happening on multiple machines. For some reasons I have other >> machines that never have a problem. These machines may have older >> installations. >> >> >> Any advice is appreciated. > > Use ssh -Y > > [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-05/msg00394.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/