See if it's listening at all on TCP/6000.

netstat -tan | egrep -i 6000

Also check for a socket in /tmp or /var/tmp

~BAS




On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Paul Newhouse wrote:

> NetBSD pimin 3.0.1 NetBSD 3.0.1 (PIMIN.MP) #0: Sun Sep 10 20:06:49 PDT 2006  root@bigbox.rockhead.com:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/PIMIN.MP i386
>
>
> After running as expected for weeks I suddenly get this error:
>
>   pimin[newhouse]: xterm
>   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>   Xlib: No protocol specified
>
>   xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0.0
>   pimin[newhouse]: echo $DISPLAY
>   :0.0
>   pimin[newhouse]: xhost +
>   Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>   Xlib: No protocol specified
>
>   xhost:  unable to open display ":0.0"
>
> Is there some way to recover, other than restarting X?
>
> TIA,
> Paul
>

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