gedit vs ssh -Y

[Colin Law]

On 3 February 2013 02:53, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> Greetings;
>
> 10.04.4 LTS 32 bit installs on both ends of the wire,
>
> ssh -Y as me has worked well in the past, but something has apparently now
> killed it as far as my being able to run a gedit session of the ssh -Y
> login.
>
> The failure returns to the shell:
>
> gene at shop:~/linuxcnc/nc_files$ gedit rack-clear.ngc
> GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes
> are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale
> NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ for
> information. (Details -  1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to
> connect to socket /tmp/dbus-7cJJt8ttk4: Connection refused)

Two questions, have you tried ssh -X, and does gedit work if run
directly at the remote server?
Also (ok three questions) have you tried ssh'ing into a different user
at the remote machine?

Colin