Bugzilla – Bug 809801
Disabling IPV6 in network settings, ssh X11-Forwarding fails
Last modified: 2013-04-07 07:33:30 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 Yast2(graphical):Network_Settings:Global_Options:IPv6_Protocol_Settings Contains a checkbox 'Enable IPV6'. Un-setting the checkbox and rebooting resulted in X11 forwarding failing. sshd emits a message to /var/log/messages upon an attempt to login with 'ssh -X': sshd[11290]: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket. This is manually correctable by editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config, enabling option 'AddressFamily inet' instead of 'any' and restarting sshd. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Disable IPV6 in yast2 network settings 2.Reboot 3.use 'ssh -X' to login from a remote system and run xclock (or similar) Actual Results: X11-forward fails : tested by attempting to run xclock Client receives message saying 'Error: Can't open display:' $DISPLAY is not present /var/log/messages contains error message from sshd: sshd[11290]: error: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket. Expected Results: xclock should run normally Corrected by manually updating /etc/ssh/sshd_config to contain 'AddressFamily inet' and restarting sshd.
It is a duplicate of bnc#686477. Just close it. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 686477 ***