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Re: [PLUG] Connection to x-server refused
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Could the opposite be possible? That is, could a disk space shortage,
exacerbated by temp files, either be preventing these files from being
written to disk, or overwriting them? I'm not getting any warnings, but
disk space is a bit tight on this machine.
Art
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 7/30/2001, 7:26:19 PM, Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com> wrote regarding
Re: [PLUG] Connection to x-server refused:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:30:44PM +0000, Arthur Alexion wrote:
> > I am running RedHat 6.2, and the KDE and xfree86 versions which were part
> > of the distribution. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> I'm stretching here, since I've never experienced this problem myself,
> but perhaps /tmp is getting cleaned out? Or perhaps there are dotfiles
> in your home directory which are getting deleted?
> If I'm not mistaken, X stores a cryptographic key in some file which is
> used to authenticate connections from X-enabled applications (the
> "magic cookie"). It sounds as though this file is disappearing.
> Unfortunately, I don't know anything more about how it works.
> Perhaps as a test you could run "xhost +localhost" when it acts up again
> and see if you can start X programs then. Use this only for testing
> purposes, though, because it allows anyone logged into your machine to
> start X applications on your $DISPLAY, even if they aren't you. A
> better way, actually, is to use the xauth program, but I don't really
> know the syntax for that.
> Hmm, I entered the xauth command with no arguments at the command prompt
> and it gave me the the following:
> $ xauth
> Using authority file /home/bj/.Xauthority
> xauth>
> Looking at that file, it contained the string "MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1" no
> less than twelve times. On a hunch, I did the following:
> $ grep -r MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 /tmp 2>/dev/null
> /tmp/dcopMqzdau:remove protoname=ICE protodata=""
netid=local/epoch:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17701 authname=MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> /tmp/dcopMqzdau:remove protoname=DCOP protodata=""
netid=local/epoch:/tmp/.ICE-unix/17701 authname=MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> /tmp/.ICE-unix/17701 is a Unix domain socket...
> $ ls -l /tmp/.ICE-unix/17701
> srwxrwxrwx 1 bj bj 0 Jul 28 15:01
/tmp/.ICE-unix/17701
> And the date and time correspond to the last time I believe I started X.
> ('ps -aux' confirms that suspicion -- all the X infrastructure show
> starting dates of Jul28.)
> Are you sure it isn't a misconfigured cron job that deletes everything,
> say, three days old or older?
> --
> Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/
> "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should
> be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and
> this we should do freely and generously." -- Benjamin Franklin
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