i am running a PPC G5 xserve (10.4.8), which is acting as a cluster head node for 7 cluster nodes. the primary purpose of this server is to run an analysis environment called matlab. it is hosting shared data (AFP/NFS/SMB) which is stored on an Xraid (connected by fibre through a qlogic switch.)
when i try connect to the server via SSH (with the -Y option) and try to run matlab i get the following error:
kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and console user only
INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer.Abort
if i do the same as root, it works, but obviously i can’t be giving out root access to the users.
as a test i tried to run xlogo, and got the following error:
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:15.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
this also works when i am root.
also, when i first log in, after i enter my password, i get the folllowing error:
Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
which i have seen elsewhere referred to as a warning i can safely ignore
but then after the message of the day i get the following error:
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /homes/lhighstein/.Xauthority
does anyone have any idea why this would be the case? better yet, anyone know how i can solve this?