Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now
>> I get:
>>
>> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not
>> generated
>> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
>> Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
>> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>> Cannot open display:
>
> Ah, I had this problem for months; it was driving me crazy!
>
> I don't remember the specifics, but it had to to with some wankery of glibc
> not working properly with xauth.  I'm pretty sure the fix is to update to
>>=sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2 or regress glibc back a few ticks.
>
> Regards,
> Wyatt

Thanks Wyatt.  I upgraded the server and client to the latest glibc in
portage with the same result.  When I tried to downgrade glibc, I got:

 * Sanity check to keep you from breaking your system:
 *  Downgrading glibc is not supported and a sure way to destruction

- Grant