hi,
I have a script that opens Openoffice in an X session managed by
Xvfb. I initiate the X session with:
Xvfb :86 -screen scrn 800x600x32 &
This used to work fine. But sometime in the recent past, presumably
since an unobserved update or something, I get this error when trying
to connect
$ DISPLAY=:86 xterm & [1] 18603
Xlib: connection to ":86.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :86 [1]+ Exit 1 DISPLAY=:86 xterm -sl 1000
Xvfb itself generates this error: AUDIT: Tue Nov 16 14:37:43 2004: 18483 Xvfb: client 1 rejected from
local host
I can workaround this by invoking Xvfb with the -ac switch: Xvfb :86 -ac -screen scrn 800x600x32 &
but obviously this is terrible security practice, so I can't use it
normally.
I've flipped through the Xserver and Xsecurity man pages but I'm still
at a bit of a loss as to how to get Xvfb to read the authorization
file, or maybe I'm using the wrong one. I tried this:
Xvfb :86 -auth /home/matt/.Xauthority -screen scrn 800x600x32 &
just for the archive: found the solution on the net, the file named by -auth should simply contain host names in cleartest. In my case I made a file
/etc/X99.cfg
containing the single line:
localhost
and call Xvfb thus:
Xvfb :86 -auth /etc/X99.cfg -screen scrn 800x600x32 &
all fixed!
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