All of a sudden I started getting these messages when running emacs or xbill etc. as root from an su'ed xterm on the workstation:
(agnete is the workstation) $ su Password: #emacs Xlib: connection to "agnete:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server emacs: Cannot connect to X server agnete:0.0 Check the DISPLAY environment variable or use '-d'. Also use the 'xhost' program to verify that it is set to permit connections from your machine #/usr/games/xbill Xlib: connection to "agnete:0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server Error: Can't open display: agnete:0.0 # So I check the DISPLAY variable: DISPLAY=agnete:0.0 I'm not allowed to run xhost because of the same problem as above (no I don't have a screen on the server and need to do this from a workstation :) ). If I ssh -X to my server and try to run an X-program it works fine as long as I'm not root. If I'm root, the program just hangs still and does nothing. It seems to execute but I cannot either see a window nor any output in the xterm. How may I cope with this problem (or problems if the Xlib and SSH-problems are not the same)? Thanks. -- Ole Sebastian Stein ``Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.'' -- Donald E. Knuth, March 1977 _______________________________________________________________ Hundreds of nodes, one monster rendering program. Now that's a super model! Visit http://clustering.foundries.sf.net/ _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
