Subject: Re: HELP with X display
To: Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp@spiritual-machines.org>
From: Paul Newhouse <newhouse@rockhead.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/24/2007 00:31:35
>  
>  See if it's listening at all on TCP/6000.
>
>  netstat -tan | egrep -i 6000

: /usr/pkg/bin/xv /tmp/newhouse/1.0=1=2.6839.exmh
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

/usr/pkg/bin/xv: Can't open display
pimin[newhouse]: netstat -tan | egrep -i 6000
tcp        0      0  172.16.89.42.6000      172.16.89.45.65516     ESTABLISHED
tcp        0      0  *.6000                 *.*                    LISTEN
tcp6       0      0  *.6000                 *.*                    LISTEN

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

: ls -l /var/tmp /tmp
/tmp:
total 156
-rw-------  1 newhouse  wheel  46253 Mar 22 13:43 CIS-59B Syllabus.pdf
-rw-------  1 newhouse  wheel  24592 Mar 20 12:43 Contributor.pdf
drwx------  2 alex      wheel    512 Mar 21 17:58 alex/
drwx------  2 newhouse  wheel    512 Mar 23 23:35 newhouse/
-rw-r--r--  1 newhouse  wheel    400 Mar 17 22:44 postgresssql

/var/tmp:
total 48
drwx------  2 newhouse  wheel   512 Mar 22 13:44 gconfd-newhouse/
drwx------  2 root      wheel   512 Dec  9 13:41 gconfd-root/
drwx------  2 newhouse  wheel   512 Mar 22 13:44 orbit-newhouse/
drwx------  2 root      wheel   512 Dec  9 13:41 orbit-root/
-rw-------  1 newhouse  wheel  2995 Mar 19 13:46 tmp.0.00000367aa.bak
-rw-------  1 newhouse  wheel  1736 Oct 28 08:43 tmp.0.00022842aa.bak
-rw-------  1 newhouse  wheel  2343 Feb  3 09:45 tmp.41.00029294bp.bak
-rw-------  1 newhouse  wheel  3538 Feb  4 11:40 tmp.61.00029294cj.bak
drwxrwxrwt  2 root      wheel   512 Mar 23 14:40 vi.recover/

I tried a reinit and now I don't have any of the twm window trim.

>  ~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
>  >
>  
>  l8*
>   	-lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
>   	       http://www.spiritual-machines.org/
>  
>  "...from back in the heady days when "helpdesk" meant nothing, "diskquota"
>  meant everything, and lives could be bought and sold for a couple of pages
>  of laser printout - and frequently were."