Yep, exactly the same issue. Our dirty workaround is to ssh -X back into the same host and it will work.
> On 24 Apr 2018, at 00:03, Brendan Moloney <moloney.bren...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We recently upgraded to 17.11, and I was trying to setup the new integrated > X11 forwarding instead of using the spank plugin. > > Initially I was testing with an SSH session into our login node and things > seemed fine. Then I switched to using X2Go to connect to the login node and > it broke. The error was something along the lines of "Can't forward a local > display" (sorry, didn't save the exact error and I have since reverted back > to using the spank plugin). With X2Go (and some other remote desktop > solutions) you are assigned a local display number, which apparently causes > this problem to surface. > > Has anyone else ran into this? The spank plugin still works fine, but in the > long term we would like to switch over to the integrated solution if possible. > > Thanks, > Brendan
