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Old 07-30-2007
Question ssh X11 tunnelling error

Hello freinds.
Recently installed solaris 10 on a "sun ultra 10" with all the included features in the 5 CD set except sendmail support which i never needed.

I am trying to ssh into the servers at my school which I can very easily do using linux. It seems that there is something wrong with the font libraries or something as on this machine I cannot ssh to those servers using X11 tunnelling.

On issuing the following command ssh -X username@domainname I get the following error on my console:
Code:
xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset:  bad font path element (#65), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax

This does brings me to the prompt of the server but I can only use the CLI. I cannot have the X window system on the server show up on my system here. The servers are sun servers too.

Additionally when i try to ssh into the servers that are linux based, i cannot even get to the prompt. I mean after issuing the command as before, and pressing return, the console sits doing nothing and nothing happens.

A bit more information on the sun servers since those are the only ones that atleast seem to allow ssh entry.
echo $DISPLAY before the ssh(while im still on my own machine) returns:
:0.0.

After reaching those sun based servers when i issue the same command at their prompt i get:
localhost:13.0

I hope to hear from you people,

Regards,
Aijaz
# 2  
Old 07-30-2007
Post the output of:
Code:
 /usr/X/bin/xset -q

From the local machine and from the ssh session.
# 3  
Old 07-30-2007
hi there reborg.
the output of /usr/X/bin/xset -q from the local machie is the following :
Code:
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000001
  auto repeating keys:  00faaf8becff67f2
                        ff7bf0ff1ff89f03
                        1900000000000000
                        0000000000000000
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  0
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x34    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
Font Path:
  /export/home/aijba273/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/export/home/aijba273/.gnome2/share/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 1440    Suspend: 1620    Off: 1800
  DPMS is enabled
  Monitor is on
FBPM (Frame Buffer Power Management):
  System is not capable of FBPM

The output of /usr/X/bin/xset -q from the ssh session is:
Code:
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000001
  auto repeating keys:  00faaf8becff67f2
                        ff7bf0ff1ff89f03
                        1900000000000000
                        0000000000000000
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  0
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x34    BlackPixel:  0    WhitePixel:  16777215
Font Path:
  /export/home/aijba273/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/sun/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/F3bitmaps/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType,/export/home/aijba273/.gnome2/share/fonts
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 1440    Suspend: 1620    Off: 1800
  DPMS is enabled
  Monitor is on
FBPM (Frame Buffer Power Management):
  System is not capable of FBPM

I hope it helps.
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