Bug 626483

Summary: X forwarding not working
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: David Teigland <teigland>
Component: xorg-x11-appsAssignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <sandmann>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
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Version: 6.0CC: kem
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Description David Teigland 2010-08-23 16:36:05 UTC
Description of problem:

I really expected this was user error, but I've asked a few other people who also can't get this to work...

(null is running F12 in case that matters)

[null ~]% ssh -XY dct@bid-03
dct@bid-03's password: 

[dct@bid-03 ~]$ xterm
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: 
xterm:  DISPLAY is not set

[dct@bid-03 ~]$ virt-manager 
ERROR:root:could not open display
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 413, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 285, in main
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
    _init()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
    _gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 420, in <module>
    _show_startup_error(str(run_e), "".join(traceback.format_exc()))
  File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 61, in _show_startup_error
    import gtk
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in <module>
    _init()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
    _gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RHEL6.0-20100818.0-Server

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Comment 1 David Teigland 2010-08-23 16:46:47 UTC
sorry, didn't have Xorg installed