Re: Problems with CORBA and SSH

[Sebastian Wilhelmi <wilhelmi ira uka de>]

Hi Graham,

> It seems that Gnome apps that include CORBA support do not run remotely
> over SSH.
> 
> When I try to run gnomecc (for example) on a remote machine (on the same
> subnet, no firewalls or filtering trickery involved) it goes like this:
> 
> [11:26am] bcngrle dsnstar:~> gnomecc
> 
> ** WARNING **: Could not get name service!
> 
> ** ERROR **: file goad.c: line 1237 (goad_server_register): assertion
> failed: (name_server != CORBA_OBJECT_NIL)
> aborting...
> Abort
> Exit 134
> 
> Unfortunately the message "assertion failed: (name_server !=
> CORBA_OBJECT_NIL)" may mean a whole bunch to a developer who wrote the
> code, but it means absolutely nothing to me. What exactly is this
> message trying to tell me?
> 
> If I assume a CORBA name service is not running on the remote machine
> (which it isn't for my login ID) and try start it manaully I get this:
> 
> [11:26am] bcngrle dsnstar:~> gnome-name-service
> Exit 1
> 
> Has anyone out there managed to get remote Gnome programs to work at
> all, ie where the gnome-name-service runs on a local machine and the
> Gnome app you want to run runs on another?
> 
> How does a Gnome program know what CORBA server to connect to?

GNOME finds the name-service with help of X server properties. Try to run the
command `xprop -root GNOME_NAME_SERVER` on the remote machine. My guess is,
that you simply didn't set DISPLAY or disallowed accessto your
X-Windows-server. Try ssh -X.

Bye,
Sebastian
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