How to run an X application via X11 forwarding over ssh or putty with X deport enabled ?
Issue
- How to run an X application via X11 forwarding over ssh or putty with Xming when using sudo ? The following error is received
# sudo <X_application>
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
The application lost its connection to the display localhost:11.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application.
- How to run an X application via X11 forwarding over ssh or putty with X deport enabled ?
- When putty is used with Xming to run the application, below error message will be displayed.
[display@gss-xen~]$ sudo virt-manager
Xlib: connection to "localhost:11.0" refused by server
Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 data did not match
Xlib: connection to "localhost:11.0" refused by server
Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 data did not match
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 376, in ?
_show_startup_error(str(run_e), "".join[traceback.format_exc())]
File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 52, in _show_startup_error
import gtk
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_init_.py", line 76 in ?
_init |)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/_init_.py", line 64 in ?
_init |)
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
[display@gss-xen~]$
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Cannot connect to X server localhost:11.0
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Unable to open
virt-managergetting error. When logged in as root it is working fine, when doing assudoergetting below error:
# virt-manager
MobaXterm X11 proxy: Authorisation not recognised
Unable to initialize GTK: could not open display
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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