Bug#196554: xlibs: todays update causes every app to report "Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server"
* Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
> When I experienced this problem on PowerPC while preparing 4.2.1-7, I
> found that downgrading xserver-xfree86 to 4.2.1-6 but leaving everything
> else at -7 worked, too.
>
> I don't see why downgrading xlibs-{dev,pic} would help anything at all;
> you should be able to re-upgrade those and not change the way your
> system behaves in this regard.
>
> Can you confirm these two hypotheses for me?
Well I haven't quit X throughout this process; so I doubt its the
server.
If I do:
apt-get install xlibs=4.2.1-7
I'm back to the situation of being unable to run clients and then if I
do:
apt-get install xlibs=4.2.1-6 xlibs-dev=4.2.1-6 xlibs-pic=4.2.1-6
I can run the clients again.
Note the X server has been running since Saturday morning before I ran
the upgrade that got me 4.2.1-7. Its a kdm session I'm in.
> By the way, the reason this broke is because of GCC 3.3 (read the
> package changelog). I was hoping they wouldn't get it wrong on i386,
> but I guess I was mistaken.
I guess it could be kdm/the server/the libraries disagreeing and that
its just a matter of the two being the same - so perhaps a new library
would work with a authority file created by a new server/kdm/whatever ?
Dave
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