Re: [OT ssh -Y] Attempting to start emacsclient .. unusual error?

[Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org>]

Harry Putnam wrote:

> It may just be a property of using emacs on Solaris.. there seem to be
> a few of those.

Okay, but from your description, Emacs is actually running on the Gentoo
host, though, not Solaris.  The Solaris host just has the X server.

> ssh -Y (Gentoo linux HOST) "emacsclient -snognus -c"
> (There is an gnus session with a server named nognus running there)
> 
>   X11 forwarding request failed on channel 0
>   emacsclient: could not get terminal name

Do other X-based commands work, e.g., "ssh -Y ... xclock" ?

> In case it matters that Solaris-HOST Xsession (only one user) has had this
> typed into USER's xterm `xhost +' for reasons not related to the subject
> of this post.

Is the "xhost +" still needed?  If not, I would try "xhost -" and see if
that somehow fixes things.  (I do not understand X internals enough to
know whether this is a likely culprit; it's just something I would try
if I were seeing the problem myself.  I would also try "ssh -X" instead
of "ssh -Y".)

Does this problem show up if you ssh in to the Gentoo host from other
hosts?

mike