can't cleanly log out of ssh

[josh at offthehill.org (Josh ChaitinPollak)]

Ok, so after having left an ssh -X session open for a few hours, I  
now get the following when trying to run xclock:

Xlib: connection to "localhost:10.0" refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
Error: Can't open display: localhost:10.0

I've never really understood the magic cookies, do they time out  
after a while?

On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:21 PM, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:

> Ok, I figured a bit more out, thanks to your tips. I've noted  
> another symptom with this server, which is that when I "ssh -X",  
> the X forwarding works for a while, maybe 10 minutes, but then  
> stops working. It seems to be that the 'unable to log out' issue  
> only happens after X fails to work. Before then, I can cleanly log  
> out. I can also cleanly log out when I don't use -X.
>
> Any idea why -X would stop working? I can get the exact error in a  
> few minutes.
>
> On Nov 23, 2005, at 1:17 PM, Cole Tuininga wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:05 -0500, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
>>> try listing open ports:
>>>
>>> in the ssh session press: ret ret ~ #
>>
>> Ooo - that's slick.  I'm going to have to remember that one.
>>
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