[mythtv-users] mythtv-setup and X forward

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Fri Aug 24 14:48:08 UTC 2007


On 8/24/07, Joacim J <jocke4news at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> A bit of stupid question...
> I have a klient and a server both running Kubuntu Feisty.
> I have now compiled MythTV on the server for running mythbackend but now I
> need to run mythtv-setup.
>
> I have tried running it over VNC but get:
>
> ======================================
> root at frodo:/home/joacim# /usr/local/mythtv_svn_r14230/bin/mythtv-setup
> Xlib: connection to ":1.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> mythtv-setup: cannot connect to X server : 1.0
> ======================================
>
> How can I run this?
>
> Is it possible/better to start mythtv-setup from a regular SSH session and
> in that case how?
>
> PS. I would prefer to solve VNC since I need it for other purposes but
> it's most important to get it running :) DS
>
> Have a nice weekend!
>

Ignoring the question of why you don't just run this on the console of the
backend with a monitor and keyboard during setup, from the client, run

ssh -X server
mythtv-setup

and you should be good to go
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