On 1/16/07, Joerg van den Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm aware that this is not really a question for the fink list. apologies in > advance for > posting...: > > I experience about 99% of the time (but not always) a problem, where after > waking up my G5 > (10.4.8) from sleep, > the running X window manager (`ion3' in my case) does no longer work in so > far as > every attempt to create a new window results in the error message given as > the subject > of this mail and a message from the respective program (e.g. `gv') that it is > unable to > open the display. > > in the 'troubleshooting Xfree86' page on the Fink site I found a work around, > namely > manually removing the (and recreating a new empty) .Xauthority file. this > indeed works. > (and thanks very much for that hint -- up to now I found no other cure than > to abort and > restart Xdarwin). > > the reason for the problem given in the 'troubleshooting' page > is: > ========================================cut====================================== > this can be caused by some VNC installations, by running XDarwin through > sudo, and > probably some other freak accidents. > ========================================cut====================================== > > I _do_ have tightvnc installed (but how could it do harm if not running?), I > do _not_ run > XDarwin through sudo. is my problem a regular 'freak accident'? does anyone > experience > similar problems after wake up from sleep mode? does anybody > have a clue what can go wrong "overnight"? > > > joerg >
"Freak accidents" may be excessive. You're quite right about the non-running tightvnc not being the culprit. I get this error occasionally when I switch X servers (e.g. from X11.app to XDarwin.app. I have never had it occur on waking up a machine that is running X11 (of any sort), though. I'd be interested to hear if others have had this problem. -- Alexander K. Hansen (akh) Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
