Re: ssh says Cannot listen to port: 6000

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-29 08:49, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 29 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> > > Or simply put these 2 lines at the top of your ~/.ssh/config
> > >
> > > Host *
> > >   ForwardX11 no
> > Please forget this nonsense, I read only the subject line, not
> > the body of your message.
>
>
> Thanks to you and Ron I now know that port 6000 is being used by X11.
> And in fact, if I ssh at a terminal without starting X I can connect.
> But then, of course, I can't start X!
>
> How can this be resolved? It must  be possible because it works on two
> other computers, just not on this one.

Compare /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc across the systems.  Mine, devoid 
of whitespace and comments, simply says:

    $ cat /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
    exec /usr/bin/X11/X -nolisten tcp

Googling "-nolisten tcp" should point you in the right direction.

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