Monthly Archives: November 2011

Balintawak Arnis Cebu

16-Nov-2011 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under
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I’m in Cebu, the Philippines at the moment, learning Balintawak Arnis (stick fighting). A little video of my training – I’m still very much a beginner…

ssh – DISPLAY is not set – Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket

06-Nov-2011 Posted by Sonia Hamilton under ,
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A little ssh error I came across while trying to work remotely on an Ubuntu machine. ssh X Display Forwarding wasn’t working, and I was getting an error:

DISPLAY is not set

Digging through /var/log/auth.log, I also noticed this error:

Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket

After much Googling, it seems that IPv6 was causing the problem. It was solved by adding:

AddressFamily inet

to /etc/ssh/sshd_config, and restarting the ssh server.