Re: WOODY update: remote clients can't open X display
OK, when I posted this I had tried to check the mailing list archives but
couldn't access the page. It's back now and I found posts about this.
Running the gdmconfig program installed the changes that I made to remove
the -nolisten option and now it's working again. Beats me where the actual
startup files are...
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Rick Macdonald wrote:
>
> I updated three woody/sid machines to the current woody today. It had been
> one to three months since I last updated to woody. Everything went
> flawlessly (almost 500 packages on one box).
>
> But then I later discovered that I can't send X displays back to any of
> the machines, even if I run "xhost +".
>
> I'm running gnome/sawfish.
>
> The only suspicious thing I've found (just a guess) is the "-nolisten tcp"
> option on the X command line shown below. All attempts to remove this via
> /etc/gdm/gdm.conf fail: the command line doesn't change.
>
> root 1378 0.7 2.3 70156 12252 ? S< 14:12 3:42
> /usr/bin/X11/X :0 -deferglyphs 16 -nolisten tcp vt7 -auth
> /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth
>
> What changed, and how do I fix this?
>
> ...RickM...
>
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