Re: X does not start

["roylo" <roylo@example.com>]

^_^;   congrass

I will make a note of that for next time.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Hector Akamine" <akamine@example.com>
To: <tlug@example.com>
Cc: <akamine@example.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 2:23 AM
Subject: Re: X does not start


> I finally got with the problem. The disk where I have my home directory
got
> full. Making some free space in the disk again solved the problem.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> > >>>>> "Hector" == Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com>
writes:
> >
> > > > My computer suddenly refused to start X
> >
> > Do you normally use startx and not xdm (or similar)?  When did you
> > _start_ the last successful session?
> >
> > > > AUDIT: Thu Aug 30 09:41:16 2001: 6343 X: client 1 rejected from
local
> > > > host
> > > > Xlib: connection to ":0:0" refused by server
> > > > Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server
> >
> > X is started, I'm pretty sure.  However, your authorization system is
> > screwed up, so it refused to allow the window manager to start.  Most
> > likely changing VTs and starting an xterm with xterm -display :0 won't
> > work either, but you can try that.
> >
> > > > Did any file get corrupted? How can I fix it?
> >
> > Check the permissions on the files ~/.ICEauthority and ~/.Xauthority,
> > and on your home directory.  It's highly unlikely that your home
> > directory is not writable by you, but I've actually intentionally set
> > things up that way on occasion.  The files should be -rw-------.  It's
> > quite possible that Red Hat expects xdm to start the server, in which
> > case the server would set up to expect Xlib to have a cookie available
> > in one of those files.
> >
> >     Hector> I forgot to mention that I didn't make any change in the
> >     Hector> system that could be causing the problem
> >
> > It's quite possible that a latent change made weeks before could be
> > the cause.  This depends on your usage pattern.  In particular, if
> > your X server stays up for months, as mine does....
> >
>
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