Bug#319900: ssh: xterm -e ssh -f somehost xclock fails randomly most of the time

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 01:28:04PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Do you get the same ones ? Or no error message at all ?

Yes, I see these too, sorry for forgotting to mention them. I
obviously did not see the warnings in the oringinal testcase because
the xterm window closed so quickly (and if I tried to strace them then
it slowed down and the bug did not occur anymore...)

Transcript:

lindi@warpdrive:~$ for i in `seq 1 10`; do ssh -Xf `hostname` xclock & done
[1] 20418
[2] 20420
[3] 20422
[4] 20423
[5] 20426
[6] 20431
[7] 20437
[8] 20440
[9] 20445
[10] 20447
[1]   Done                    ssh -Xf `hostname` xclock
[4]   Done                    ssh -Xf `hostname` xclock
lindi@warpdrive:~$ Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Xlib: connection to "localhost:12.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: localhost:12.0
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
/usr/bin/X11/xauth:  error in locking authority file /home/lindi/.Xauthority
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:12.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
/usr/bin/X11/xauth:  error in locking authority file /home/lindi/.Xauthority
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:15.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Xlib: connection to "localhost:17.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: localhost:17.0
Xlib: connection to "localhost:18.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: localhost:18.0



-Timo