Bug 7763

When you removed the account, did you select the option to remove the account's
data at the same time?  It sounds as if you have created the new account and
reused the same home directory, somehow having given the user a different UID
than before.  With a different UID or GID owning your files, strange things
would happen. Please check that the owner of your files is your user by running:
ls -ln $HOME
and comparing the uid and gid listed before the file sizes with the output of
id -a

I'm seeing similar problems using ssh with X forwarding.  I log in with

ssh machine -l root

which lets me in OK and X forwarding works for all other programs than
linuxconf.  I tried xterm, xbiff, gcombust.  When I start linuxconf I get

# linuxconf            
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication at Thu Jul 27 13:52:09
2000.
a
Rejected connection at Thu Jul 27 13:52:09 2000: X11 connection from
machine.domain.dk port 1293

Error message from remadmin :Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to
machine.domain.dk:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

The Xauth details are:
# xauth
Using authority file /tmp/Xauthv12345
xauth> list
machine.domain.dk:10  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1  21e98dd1234567893dd8f2cd0f2a4fef
xauth> quit

So perhaps linuxconf is getting confused because it looks like a local server,
but you have to use TCP, you can't use Unix domain sockets (AFAIK) to talk to
the ssh forwarding port.

I did an strace of linuxconf, and here is what looks most likely to be vaguely
relevant:

lstat("/bin/remadmin", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=835, ...}) = 0
socketpair(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 1, [14, 15]) = 0
pipe([16, 17])                          = 0
pipe([18, 19])                          = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x80b61e4, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
fork()                                  = 12373
close(17)                               = 0
close(19)                               = 0
close(15)                               = 0
fcntl(14, F_GETFL)                      = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fstat(14, {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0777, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x402a3000
_llseek(14, 0, 0xbfffda78, SEEK_CUR)    = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(14, "Version 3 \"Invalid GUI protocol "..., 41) = 41
select(19, [14 16 18], NULL, NULL, {1000000, 0}) = 1 (in [14], left {999999,
980000})
read(14, "prefer treemenu\n", 9999)     = 16
write(14, "23 main-0-1 \"Command line usage\""..., 1024) = 1024
write(14, "inuxconf_dialout site ppp-device"..., 1024) = 1024
write(14, " domain [--startuid uid ] [--dal"..., 856) = 856
select(19, [14 16 18], NULL, NULL, {1000000, 0}) = 1 (in [16], left {999999,
980000})
read(16, "Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to br"..., 9999) = 95
write(2, "Error message from remadmin :Gdk"..., 124Error message from remadmin
:Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to brage.mjolner.dk:10.0 broken (explicit kill or
server shutdown).
) = 124
select(19, [14 16 18], NULL, NULL, {1000000, 0}) = 3 (in [14 16 18], left
{1000000, 0})
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---


In contrast, xbiff, which works does a


access("/tmp/Xauthv12345", R_OK)        = 0
open("/tmp/Xauthv12345", O_RDONLY)      = 4
read(4, "\0\0", 2)                      = 2
read(4, "\0\4", 2)                      = 2
read(4, "\n\0\0\7", 4)                  = 4
read(4, "\0\2", 2)                      = 2
read(4, "10", 2)                        = 2
read(4, "\0\22", 2)                    = 2
read(4, "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1", 18)       = 18


I can't find any references to the Xauth file when I strace linuxconf.  The
environment file
XAUTHORITY=/tmp/Xauthv12345
is set.

Versions on the machine I am ssh'ing to:
openssh-server-1.2pre11-1
linuxconf-1.17r2-6
mkxauth-1.7-12
pam-0.72-6
gcombust-0.1.28-1
gtk+-1.2.6-7
redhat-release-6.2-1

and on the machine I am ssh'ing from:
XFree86-3.3.5-1.6.0
ssh-1.2.27-7i
redhat-release-6.0-1

Closing because we don't ship linuxconf anymore

Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.