Bug#489141: xserver-xorg: X server sometimes refuses local xclients to connect
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 14:20:26 +0200, Michael Hanke wrote:
> Since a few weeks I'm experiencing the situation that from time to time
> local X clients cannot connect to the local X server:
>
> hanke@balin:~$ xcalc
> No protocol specified
> Error: Can't open display: :0
>
>
> While at the same time foreign clients (via SSH connection) can connect
> without problems:
>
> hanke@feanor:/media/local2/working/hanke/catface2$ xcalc
> Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap
> Warning: Cannot convert string "gray3?foreground=gray70&background=gray85" to type Pixmap
>
What's the value of $DISPLAY in both cases? If you could install
libx11-6-dbg (and maybe libxcb-xlib0-dbg and libxcb1-dbg) and trace
what's happening when this fails, using gdb, that would probably help a
lot.
Cheers,
Julien
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