Re: Cannot launch ssh from X11 system tray icon

[Craig <cygwin-xfree@cemery.org.uk>]

I don't suppose anyone has any thoughts on this?
It's rendered Cygwin X11 unusable. :-(
Can any further diagnostics be enabled?

On 23 March 2012 17:56, Craig wrote:
> I have two machines, a desktop and a laptop.
> Both are 64bit Windows 7 Enterprise installations.
>
> I (think I) configured Cygwin on both the same and they have the same
> identical ~/.XWinrc file.
> They both use the same mirror for installing and are both fully up to date.
>
> A précis of my .XWinrc looks like this:
>
> menu root {
> // Comments fit here, too...
> "Xterm" exec "xterm"
> "Xterm - Vulpix" exec "ssh vulpix xterm -e bash --login"
> }
>
> And on the desktop both work and on the laptop only the local xterm will run.
> Nothing appers in /var/log/<anything>
>
> So I added an entry like this:
>
> "Experiment" exec ~/experiment
>
> and ~/experiment looks like this
>
> #!/bin/bash
> (
> set -x
> ssh -v vulpix xterm
> ) > /tmp/experiment 2>&1
>
> It still fails (i.e. does nothing) and /tmp/experiment has
>
> + ssh -v vulpix xterm
> OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8t 18 Jan 2012
> debug1: Reading configuration data /home/craigem/.ssh/config
> debug1: /home/craigem/.ssh/config line 3: Applying options for vulpix
> debug1: /home/craigem/.ssh/config line 49: Applying options for vulpix
> debug1: Connecting to vulpix.uk.xensource.com [10.80.2.147] port 22.
> debug1: Connection established.
> debug1: identity file /home/craigem/.ssh/id_rsa type 1
> debug1: identity file /home/craigem/.ssh/id_rsa-cert type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/craigem/.ssh/id_dsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/craigem/.ssh/id_dsa-cert type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/craigem/.ssh/id_ecdsa type -1
> debug1: identity file /home/craigem/.ssh/id_ecdsa-cert type -1
> debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version
> OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5
> debug1: match: OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5 pat OpenSSH*
> debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0
> debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_5.9
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received
> debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
> debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST(1024<1024<8192) sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REPLY
> debug1: Server host key: RSA 51:9d:01:87:94:a8:b7:ef:13:dd:89:c4:a7:2e:8b:17
> debug1: Host 'vulpix.uk.xensource.com' is known and matches the RSA host key.
> debug1: Found key in /home/craigem/.ssh/known_hosts:7
> debug1: ssh_rsa_verify: signature correct
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent
> debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received
> debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent
> debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_ACCEPT received
> debug1: Authentications that can continue: publickey,password
> debug1: Next authentication method: publickey
> debug1: Offering RSA public key: /home/craigem/.ssh/id_rsa
> debug1: Server accepts key: pkalg ssh-rsa blen 279
> debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
> debug1: Authentication succeeded (publickey).
> Authenticated to vulpix.uk.xensource.com ([10.80.2.147]:22).
> debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
> debug1: Requesting no-more-sessions@openssh.com
> debug1: Entering interactive session.
> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
> debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing.
> debug1: Sending command: xterm
>       0 [main] ssh 2184 select_stuff::wait: WaitForMultipleObjects failed
> debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
> select: Permission denied
> Transferred: sent 2784, received 2152 bytes, in 0.2 seconds
> Bytes per second: sent 12596.6, received 9737.0
> debug1: Exit status -1
>
> So can anyone tell me why I get the select / waitForMultipleObjects error?
>
> If I'm in the xterm I *can* run, I have zero problems running
>
> $ ssh vulpix xterm -e bash --login

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