From: Crist Clark (crist.clark@globalstar.com)
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 16:32:41 EDT
Strange problem tunnelling X11 connections through SSH while using the
NetBackup administration GUI, jnbSA. When displaying back to another Sun,
the GUI window does not display correctly. It pops up looking blank
except for the password dialog box with a flashing cursor. If you blindly
click where you think the username box would be and hit it, it will
suddenly appear. Same for the hostname box. Likewise, if you point around
the window and click, some of the text charaters show up under your clicks.
It seems like the objects in the window are not being "updated" or
"refreshed" when the window is created. You have to act on them for them
to appear.
This only appears when tunnelling through SSH. If I use a direct TCP
X11 connection,
$ DISPLAY='myhost:0.0'
$ xhost 'netbackup-server'
Rather than tunnel the TCP through SSH, the window appears normal.
Another data point, the jnbSA window does show up OK when the X11
server is Exceed 7.0.0 running on a PC. (For the record, the Sun X
servers that I've seen this problem are OpenWindows 3.6.1 and 6.4.1.)
This is not a problem configuring the SSH tunnel, the window does pop-up,
it just looks and acts funny. The DISPLAY is correctly set and both the
SSH client and server have X11Forwarding enabled.
This is not a problem with the X server on the NetBackup client lacking
fonts or something along those lines. The window displays normally when
not tunnelling through SSH.
Anyone know why this happens and a way to fix it?
-- Crist J. Clark crist.clark@globalstar.com Globalstar Communications (408) 933-4387 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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