From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21195 invoked by alias); 28 Mar 2012 22:01:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 21106 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Mar 2012 22:01:11 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-pb0-f43.google.com (HELO mail-pb0-f43.google.com) (209.85.160.43) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:00:58 +0000 Received: by pbcwz12 with SMTP id wz12so2786136pbc.2 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.203.38 with SMTP id kn6mr35842pbc.54.1332972057678; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:00:57 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.44.5 with HTTP; Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:00:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F7354FC.3080401@arcor.de> References: <4F7354FC.3080401@arcor.de> From: Craig Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Cannot launch ssh from X11 system tray icon To: cygwin-xfree Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2012-03/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 On 28 March 2012 19:14, Dirk Fassbender wrote: > Am 28.03.2012 12:10, schrieb Craig: >> >> 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 pr=E9cis 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/ >>> >>> So I added an entry like this: >>> >>> "Experiment" exec ~/experiment >>> >>> and ~/experiment looks like this >>> >>> #!/bin/bash >>> ( >>> set -x >>> ssh -v vulpix xterm >>> )> =A0/tmp/experiment 2>&1 >>> >>> It still fails (i.e. does nothing) and /tmp/experiment has >>> >>> >>> 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 >> >> > Hello Craig, > > you have to use X11 Forwarding. Try > [snip] Hi Dirk, I am sorry I wasn't more explicit. My ssh config file enabled X11 forwarding, as you'll note debug1: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. was in my original post. I added -Y to the ssh and still saw both the X11 debug1 line and the sympto= m. Craig -- 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/