"Jonathan Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 07:04:42PM -0000, John Stumbles wrote: > > > xrdb: Connection refused > > xrdb: Can't open display 'Hostname:1' > > > > I think I read somewhere else that it could be an Xauth cookie issue, but > > I've lost that piece and haven't a clue how to investigate that possibility. > > This sounds like a possibility. Are you trying to run xrdb remotely? Try > locally, and perhaps another app like xterm, locally. Try moving > ~/.Xauthority for your user, restarting X and vnc and see if that makes a > difference (unless you know that you need this file for another purpose, > and make sure you don't weaken the permissions)
Sorry, I didn't understand that. I'm running the vnc viewer on a different (windows) machine to the server (which is on woody), but the error message (xrdb: Can't open display) is generated when I run vncserver, not when I start the remote vnc viewer (so I don't think the other, windoze, machine has anything to do with it). I did try moving ~/.Xauthority and running vncserver. I get: xauth: creating new authority file /home/user/.Xauthority New 'X' desktop is Hostname:1 Starting applications specified in /etc/X11/Xsession Log file is /home/user/.vnc/Hostname:1.log but .xsession-errors still gets [re]written with xrdb: Connection refused xrdb: Can't open display 'Hostname:1' With my new .Xauthority if I try running xterm I get Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorised to connect to Server xterm Xt error: can't open display: :0 If I switch back my .Xauthority to the original one and run xterm I get an xterm on my local gui. Incidentally my .Xauthority is -rw------; the original (which seems to be created by my gui session) is size 418 but the one created when I run vncserver is size 101. Durr, i still don't understand: .Xauthority seems to be created by my regular gui X session, and is not overwritten by vncserver's startup, though vncserver will create its own (smaller/broken?) .Xauthority if none exists. Is this what should happen? Is this the problem? (and if so, what is the solution? :-) tia -- John Stumbles -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-|-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ -+ I've got a book about motivation but I've never got round to reading it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]