Re: vbox sid invalid mcookie
Cousin Stanley wrote :
>> Using a debian squeeze host for a Virtual Box 4.0.12
>> debian sid guest, about a month ago I started having
>> invalid magic cookie problems when trying to do
>> anything X related from a terminal ....
Liam O'Toole replied :
> Are you running applications
> entirely within the Virtual Box guest ?
Yes, just using it as a test-bed for sid
and for a few packages that are not in squeeze.
> Or trying to forward output
> to the host display ?
No, although I might want to try that
in the future ....
I can ssh & scp from the sid guest
to the squeeze host ....
However, if I ssh -Y to the squeeze host
I get the invalid magic cookie message
the same as only trying to start a local
X program from the terminal in the sid guest ....
X forwarding is enabled in the squeeze host,
and I can ssh -Y into the host
from ArchLinux and Ubuntu guests
also under VirtualBox on the same host
without problems ....
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Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona
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