[ale] remote x apps crash X11

[Geoffrey Myers]

On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Tim Watts wrote:

> Is the hardware the same on those other systems? Also, maybe I
> misunderstood, but are you targeting a mac from the other systems too?

All the hardware is intel based.  My mac is not involved in the problem.  Basically, an old P4 laptop that I will pull out when I don't want to work in my office.  I'll ssh to my work machine so I can run apps on the old laptop.

> 
> 
> On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 12:22 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> On 09/29/2010 12:02 PM, Sergio Chaves wrote:
>>> Apparently there is a bug with a remote X session running over SSH.
>>> Quick Google search "ssh -x crash local session" provided +-6K results for
>>> infinite amount of distributions.
>> 
>> Hmm, well quite interesting as I do this on Red Hat, Mandriva, SuSE on 
>> various machines, but only have that problem on Fedora 12.
>> 
>> I'll check the links.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Interesting links to look at:
>>> http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging
>>> and
>>> http://linux.die.net/man/5/sshd_config  (sshd man page (5) ).
>>> Looking at the TCPKeepAlive config option, it reads: "Specifies whether the
>>> system should send TCP keepalive messages to the other side. If they are sent,
>>> death of the connection or crash of one of the machines will be properly
>>> noticed. However, this means that connections will die if the route is down
>>> temporarily, and some people find it annoying. On the other hand, if TCP
>>> keepalives are not sent, sessions may hang indefinitely on the server, leaving
>>> ''ghost'' users and consuming server resources."
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps :o)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wednesday, September 29, 2010 08:54:06 am Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>>>> So, I've got Fedora 12 installed on a laptop.  If I run an remote X
>>>> application as in:
>>>> 
>>>> ssh -X mac thunderbird
>>>> 
>>>> It crashes my X11 session on the laptop.  Not immediately, but
>>>> eventually.  Anyone have a clue why this might be happening?
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