Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version)

[Les M. <le...@fu...>]

Holger Parplies wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> John Rouillard wrote on 06.11.2007 at 19:07:09 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Fatal error (bad version)]:
>> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:24:01AM +0100, Joe Skop wrote:
>>> Joe Skop wrote:
>>>> Got remote protocol 1651076184
>>>> Fatal error (bad version): Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>> Since I have no clue what your protocol or any of your commands are, I
>> am shooting in the dark here but the error message makes me think
>> that your ssh is passing X connections and setting the DISPLAY
>> environment variable and something is trying to use it.  Stop it from
>> doing that. See man ssh.
> 
> actually, something in the startup process on the *remote end* is trying to
> access :0.0 (an X-server on the remote machine), which is clearly a
> configuration error on the remote machine. This seems to come up rather
> often lately. I wonder which distribution contains such a misconfiguration
> and what it is exactly. Infos welcome.

Look in the .profile, .bash_profile, .bashrc, .cshrc, etc. files that 
are sourced in the process of the ssh login to see what they are trying 
to run.

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   Les Mikesell
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