Robert Tilley wrote:

Make was issued as root.  Why can't root connect to the xserver?

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1# make xconfig
 HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
 HOSTCC  scripts/basic/split-include
 HOSTCC  scripts/basic/docproc
 HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/conf.o
 HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o
 HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
 HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o
 HOSTCC  -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
 HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so
 HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/qconf
scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
qconf: cannot connect to X server
make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 1
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2

Any ideas welcome, Bob



Might want to try doing:

bash$ xhost +

as a regular user, before attempting to connect to the X server as root.

Jeremy


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