Re: Running applications remotely on headless SPARC box

[Mark Morgan Lloyd <markMLl.debian-sparc@telemetry.co.uk>]

Martin wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 22:09 +0100, Kaya Saman wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I would like to use one of my V210's as an application server however, 
> > there is an issue while using X11 forwarding.
> >
> > I have enabled X11_forwarding under /etc/ssh/sshd_config however, 
> > whenever I try to start an application from my x86 box remotely using:
> >
> > ssh -X or ssh -Y
> >
> > I get presented with "cannot connect to X server".
> >
> >
> > I guess that I will need to have the X server enabled on both client and 
> > server machines however, since my V210 doesn't have a GPU only the 
> > serial console what are my options?
>
> Not necessarily but you will need some of the X libraries installed so
> you have xhost and similar.  I don't recall which packages are needed
> (they may be included in the suggested packages for openssh) but
> installing xterm was sufficient last time I ran into a problem like
> this.

I routinely run headless on several architectures, but have held off 
commenting since I'm on comparatively old versions of Linux (Etch 
through Squeezy) and don't have recent Sun hardware. I normally install 
the KDE variant of Debian, then install ssh, gdm (since its XDMCP 
support works, might need a tweak in the config file), xterm and a VNC 
server; that allows me to use a local console (if one exists), remote X, 
X over SSH, or VNC. As they say, "it just works".

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