Re: make xconfig & xfree???

[Jeremy Brown <jeremy@brownjava.org>]

Robert Tilley wrote:

> Make was issued as root.  Why can't root connect to the xserver?
>
> root@debian-rtg:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1# make xconfig
>  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/split-include
>  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
>  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
>  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o
>  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
>  HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o
>  HOSTCC  -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
>  HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so
>  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/qconf
> scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
> qconf: cannot connect to X server
> make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 1
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
>
> Any ideas welcome, Bob
>  

Might want to try doing:

bash$ xhost +

as a regular user, before attempting to connect to the X server as root.

Jeremy