Subject: Re: Weird xauth problem
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 10/13/2004 11:38:35
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 11:00:59AM -0400, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com> writes:
>
> > When I start firefox-gtk2 I get this:
> >
> > $ firefox-gtk2
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
> >
> > (firefox-bin:371): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
>
> All on local disk? I've had problems like this a few times with
> .Xauthority files from the wrong machines when NFS homedirs are
> involved, or that were inappropriately copied during a system backup.
All on NFS, actually -- this machine is diskless. Does something
pass file descriptors around?
What is extremely strange here is that _only_ firefox-gtk2 would
consistently claim an auth problem; all other X apps ran fine. Does
GTK2, or Firefox, or _something_ use a different xauth method that
might have some sort of issue of this kind? I notice some new (to
me, anyway) xauth methods showed up recently...
--
Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
But as he knew no bad language, he had called him all the names of common
objects that he could think of, and had screamed: "You lamp! You towel! You
plate!" and so on. --Sigmund Freud