Created attachment 154313 [details]
RPMs installed on box_b

Does 'sudo /usr/sbin/virt-manager' work?

Are both box_b and box_c fully updated from Fedora updates?

usermode probably doesn't forward/set $XAUTHORITY right.

> Does 'sudo /usr/sbin/virt-manager' work?

Yes!

> Are both box_b and box_c fully updated from Fedora updates?

Yes, at least most of the packages I thought would make any difference.

Created attachment 154377 [details]
RPMs installed on box_c

> Are both box_b and box_c fully updated from Fedora updates?

Here's a more accurate answer: No.

But I'm happy to try updating all or some of the packages on one or both machines.

Also see similar bug 239570.  It's odd that I can reproduce the common symptoms
on every environment I have EXCEPT the Fedora 6 one noted in this bug (239395).

Please run the following commands:
  uname -n
  cat /etc/hosts
  echo $DISPLAY
  echo $XAUTHORITY
  xauth list
  su - -c '(echo $XAUTHORITY; xauth list)'

on both box_b and box_c, and paste the results.

Created attachment 154793 [details]
requested info on box_b and box_c

Here is the information you requested.

Thank you, reproduced.

This is unrelated to usermode: (sudo su - -c xeyes) doesn't work either.

This happens because ssh uses the default Xauthority file, and does not set
XAUTHORITY, so libXau uses $HOME/.Xauthority.  sudo changes the uid, but not
$HOME, so the original $HOME/.Xauthority is still used.  Then, userhelper (or su
-) use the pam_xauth module.

pam_xauth does not use $HOME/.Xauthority, but "invoking user's home
directory"/.Xauthority, i.e. /root/.Xauthority, which does not exist.

So, pam_xauth should be using $HOME/.Xauthority if XAUTHORITY is not set and
$HOME/.Xauthority is readable by the invoking user.

You can use (XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority sudo virt-manager) as a work-around.

I'm afraid the above still does not explain the difference in behavior between
box_b and box_c.

This would be only a workaround. What's IMHO really broken is environment as set
up by sudo. It should call pam_xauth as well but currently simply adding the
module to sudo pam configuration doesn't help because it is calling
pam_open_session with empty $DISPLAY.

I'm not sure whether the behavior of sudo is incorrect, but the behavior of
pam_xauth (using a different default path for .Xauthority than the X libraries_)
is definitely incorrect.

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bumping this issue for fedora 10. From fedora 10 box to fedora 10 box using ssh -X or ssh -Y. env shows DISPLAY as localhost:10.0 and attempting to run any app (gnome-terminal, evolution..etc), errors with "Cannot open display:". From Fedora 10 box to Fedora 8 box using ssh -[XY] everything works. In Fedora 8, env shows localhost:10.0.

/etc/ssh ssh_config and sshd_config same between both fedora 10 and fedora 8 hosts.

Attempting to use straight ssh session, xhost + and export DISPLAY= does nothing and gives the same errors.

Gregory, are you talking about running apps through sudo or directly? Because this bug is only about problems when X apps are run from ssh session through sudo. If this is about directly running the X apps from ssh session it would be a completely new problem, so please open a new bug report for it against openssh.

Hi,

I'm now noticing this problem on Fedora 10 x86_64 too. I used to be able to successefully run 

 sudo virt-manager

on a Centos 5 box with X forwarding activated and the virt-manager gui would display locally.

I haven't done it in a while and both operating systems have had packages updated several times since I last successfully ran it, so I'm not sure when the change occurred which is causing the problem. Other that package updates, nothing that I can think of on either the ssh server or client has been modified.

N.B. I'm running sshd on a non-standard port.

Here's an example of the ssh session:

[lnik@fedora10 ~]$ ssh -X -p 3923 centos5.example.com
lnik.com's password: 
Last login: Sun Apr 26 01:06:21 2009 from example123.dyn.example.com
###########################################################################
# Centos5
#
###########################################################################
/usr/bin/xauth:  creating new authority file /home/lnik/.Xauthority
[lnik@centos5 ~]$ sudo virt-manager 
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
The application 'virt-manager.py' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
[lnik@centos5 ~]$

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