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 03:28:31PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Looks like several xauth instances are trying to access .Xauthority at
> the same time. xauth could try several times before giving up...
> 
> Timo, maybe you can reassign this bug to xbase-clients ?

Ok, I'll do that. I replaced xauth with a wrapper script that does

#!/bin/sh

LOCKFILE=~/.Xauthority.lock

lockfile $LOCKFILE

echo "acquired lock $LOCKFILE at `date` on `hostname` as `whoami`" >> /tmp/xauth.log

/usr/bin/X11/xauth.real "$@"

rm -f $LOCKFILE

and now all xclocks show up correctly.


-Timo