Problem in executing cmd "startx" on remotely logged m/c

Datta Patil <dattatraya.patil@in.bosch.com> wrote:
> Can someone out there tell me what this means ??
>
> I have telneted to a linux machine and trying to open a console on my
> machine by doing a "startx".How do I get around this problem.

Try this instead. I used it today to bring up an X session from my X
terminal server (I had to get it through hopping through another
server.)

exec ssh-agent bash
ssh-add
startx '/usr/bin/ssh -AX hostA ssh -AX hostB ~/.xsession' -- :1

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Can someone out there tell me what this means ??

I have telneted to a linux machine and trying to open a console on my
machine by doing a "startx".How do I get around this problem.

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Fatal server error:
PAM authentication failed, cannot start X server.
Perhaps you do not have console ownership?



When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
the full server output, not just the last messages.
Please report problems to xfree86@xfree86.org.



Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
giving up.
xinit: unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 2.
Couldnt get a file descriptor referring to the console
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Mail ASAP.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 13:47:51 +0530, Datta Patil wrote:
> Can someone out there tell me what this means ??
>
> I have telneted to a linux machine and trying to open a console on my
> machine by doing a "startx".How do I get around this problem.

telnet passes login/passwd as clear text and can be captured at either
end of the connection. Sorry to hear you have it open on the mandrake box.

try ssh -X -l dattatraya MD_box_here

you have to have a X display interface running on the box you start
from, exceed, putty, cygwin, . . .