Bug#292388: XOpenDisplay says "XDM authorization key matches an existing client!"
* Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> [070212 20:58]:
> About 2 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding
> XOpenDisplay failing because the XDM auth key matched an existing
> client. I tried to reproduce with your testcase, but I couldn't. The
> relevant source code did not change a lot, but did changed a little bit.
> Did you reproduce this problem recently? If not, I will close this bug
> in the next weeks.
I just tried and could reproduce it on an etch machine.
Perhaps this bug should be reassigned to the xserver code responsible
for it (Have not looked yet since the split, so I do not know where it
ended up in).
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
The bug can be worked around quite well by adding
DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
to /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config, so that no XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 keys are
generated. I do not even know if there are other dms but xdm that
use XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 cookies at all.
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