X authorization problems on an Amilo D
Hi folks!
Yesterday, I rushed to install Woody on a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D
laptop, as I suddenly needed one. It went fairly smoothly, but now I'm
really stuck. The spec for this computer can be found at
http://www.ratnaweera.net/amilo/
which also describes a few things about installing GNU/Linux on it.
In addition to Woody, I installed the KDE 3.1.3 packages by inserting
the apt source at install time, so it has never seen the KDE packages
from Woody, KDE 3.1.3 was installed just after doing the tasksel stuff.
I just mention it in case it could be something that is in KDE 2.2.2
that isn't in KDE 3.1.3. Except for that, it is a pure Woody system.
I've also installed KDM to use as the default manager, and it comes up
at startup. When I log in, either as a user or as root, the splash
screen comes up, proceeds to "Initilizing Peripherals" before it goes
boom, and throws me back to the login screen.
After this has happened, I can find lines such as this in
/var/log/XFree86.0.log:
AUDIT: Fri Sep 5 14:38:06 2003: 410 X: client 5 rejected from local
host
AUDIT: Fri Sep 5 14:38:06 2003: 410 X: client 5 rejected from local
host
in ~/.xsession-errors, I see things like this:
startkde: Starting up...
kbuildsycoca running...
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
artsmessage: cannot connect to X server :0.0
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
knotify: cannot connect to X server :0
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-426' to 'knotify'
ERROR: Communication problem with knotify, it probably crashed.
It seems to connect to the X-server twice every time I do this, and that
explains why I see two messages I guess. If knotify has crashed, I
guess that's a bad sign, but it may be a consequence rather than a
cause of the problem, which I assume must have to do with
authorization.
Any ideas at this point? If not, this is what I've been playing with...:
Myself I've been working along the lines of that there is something
wrong with how kdm is configured to work with the X server.
I've googled a lot and tried many things. DRI is 0666 as it should be.
Knoppix works beautifully, but I guess it only connects to the xserver
once. I've even tried copying the Knoppix config and start from there.
There are some errors about "Generic Mouse", I don't know why that is
configured, but I've tried commenting it out. I think it is unrelated.
In posts to various mailing lists, I've seen people set
DisplayManager*authorize: false in xdm-config, delete /dev/dri, etc,
and I've done all that. I've also seen something about Xwrapper
mentioned in a post about an ibook,
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2003/debian-powerpc-200302/msg00021.html
but the mentioned README is not something I find on my system...
(powerpc specific?)
I've tried (as root)
xhost +
which says
xhost: unable to open display ""
so I set
DISPLAY=:0.0
export DISPLAY
and then go
xhost +
which says
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
xhost: unable to open display ":0.0"
uh, so it won't even let root do that...
So, I'm out of ideas now, and getting desparate. So, any ideas would be
greatly appreciated!
Best,
Kjetil
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