From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lxld2-00055I-Q3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:25:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2ABC7E029B; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:25:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f176.google.com (mail-gx0-f176.google.com [209.85.217.176]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF63CE029B for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:25:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk24 with SMTP id 24so3255964gxk.10 for ; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:25:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=GCq3dsI+ulVvrUCkPV8PQv7pPCX+CPoOQuYs2KO/FL0=; b=iONSgAVG1NbTxH2mrX6jwTn8ivN74tocoie84F0/f9rIaGliKNX/YD4uhMa7shKtlb sN8uaW12qvSki7TN8eMN360drueAJG5eNgV7p6IHny4oxV1KFZ3pGc1jKgCQqp6ry7Ht q7LVoStFxafRyRsvNKn6KlmRP9LfyVya/q0cM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LJjZyWxd8U8Fswrp0rSO5dFCJ7R+qtlcTqLa+XJY8z2TJHmuvAMmvT1UvUI2tkesm6 vHHZj8DsJbLGn/qPFxfpe2tdR+TgP3MHhdKxf/x2sN2IaKQPSgN1K66jkhiwu5CxvdQT wRK/8jDHwGto2LYbhZR66vBy2V0WN28GbwM6I= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.84.2 with SMTP id h2mr4386987agb.52.1240680326328; Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:25:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <49bf44f10904240801x2f5e4236v16c297859cc5c9d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 10:25:26 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10904251025y53f13e19x2644203eca79a4c7@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key" From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 70c1b074-af35-4825-a36f-9c6506e79e08 X-Archives-Hash: d0216a0428ba625572c4bed81ac7442f >> X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and no= w >> I get: >> >> Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not >> generated >> Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwardin= g. >> 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 gli= bc > not working properly with xauth.=A0 I'm pretty sure the fix is to update = to >>=3Dsys-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