m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > James B. Byrne wrote: >> >> On Wed, December 7, 2011 17:06, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> <snip> >>>> firefox -no-remote & >>> <snip> >>> >>> Now, this is aggravating: I went to test it, and all our >>> servers just got the current update last Friday, to either 5.7 >>> or 6.x, and on *both* 5.7 and 6, when I try to run firefox >>> ssh -X yourservert running on my workstation), having >>> issued the above command, it refuses, saying that it's already >>> running, but not responding.... There, I just killed this >>> session, and restarted it, and the session on my workstation's fine, >>> but trying it on another server with -no-remote still fails. >>> >>> Anyone seen this since the last update? >> >> If you wish to run multiple instances of firefox on the >> same host then you need a different user profile for each >> I believe. > > I'm sorry, is my writing *that* unclear? > > I've always been able to ssh -X to a server, and then run firefox > -no-remote, so that it runs ON THAT SERVER, NOT on my workstation. All of > a sudden, I can't. Is that clearer? AFAIK, my manager hasn't put any new > security in place (he'd have told me - mostly, he's adding logging). But > the latest ff *seems* as though it's trying to read my home caches, not > obeying what ff's own info says it will do. Let me add one more thing: I have no trouble running other X, like xterm. mark