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pfilz0

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Registered: 2015-03-26

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nautilus opens on wrong client over ssh

Hi all,

I have a strange problem when multiple ssh connections from different machines are opened to my arch host. Assume that A and B are connecting to C. If I open nautilus on A first, then any try to open nautilus on B will result in the creation of a new nautilus window on A, and on B I get the following error message:

(nautilus:39003): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed

Any idea what is going wrong here?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: nautilus opens on wrong client over ssh

Tell us a little more.  It sounds like you are using X forwarding, but you could also be using some for of port forwarding scheme.  In any event, this is clearly not a straight shell session.

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pfilz0

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Registered: 2015-03-26

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Re: nautilus opens on wrong client over ssh

True. I am using X forwarding (ssh -Y). Since I'm doing this at work, the data is being routed across a few gateways, but that might not be the problem since this started happening only recently. Please let me know if I can provide any data that would help narrow down the cause.

ewaller

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Re: nautilus opens on wrong client over ssh

From each of the two ssh sessions, what are the output of echo $DISPLAY  ?
Verify the machines have unique hostnames.
What happens with simpler programs that are not built on large tool kits like xclock  ?

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pfilz0

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Re: nautilus opens on wrong client over ssh

The output of echo $DISPLAY shows:
client1: localhost:11.0
client2: localhost:12.0

I tried running xclock and it works fine on both machines. Same with thunar. Nautilus still opens only on the machine where it was started first.

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: nautilus opens on wrong client over ssh

I am starting to think this is a GTK3 problem.  Can you try this with another GTK3 program?

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