Re: make xconfig & xfree???

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:40:25 -0400, Jeremy Brown <jeremy@brownjava.org> wrote:
> 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.
> 

You don't need root to compile your kernel, you don't need root even
if you want to make a Debian kernel package (look for the
"kernel-package" package and the "fakeroot" command) and "xhost +" is
waaaay deprecated, you should use xauth instead... =)


Andrea