Bug#489141: xorg: Lost non-root permissions to DISPLAY after upgrade on lenny
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 16:04:40 -0400, Jeff Green wrote:
> Today I upgraded my lenny install with the latest and had to reboot (for other
> reasons), but when I tried to login to my normal account I, it returned
> me fairly quickly to the login screen. Quick research showed that
> session startup could not open the display. I use WindowMaker and this
> is the error it gives in .xsession-errors
>
> Xsession: X session started for jeff at Thu Jul 10 15:13:42 EDT 2008
> Protocol not supported by server
> xrdb: Can't open display ':0'
> Protocol not supported by server
> Protocol not supported by server
> /usr/lib/WindowMaker/WindowMaker fatal error: could not open display ":0"
>
This doesn't seem to be the same problem as #489141. Are you using xdm?
If so, does 'xauth list :0' output any XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 token?
Cheers,
Julien
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