\begin{Angus Lees}
> \begin{Peter Rundle}
> > I've just installed Debian on a VMware virtual machine, and I'm
> > trying to get it to run X. So I installed the packages and the
> > xdm login screen comes up no problems. When I try to log in
> > however it appears to accept my username etc but then it just
> > throws me back out. In the users .xsession-errors file there are
> > messages like,
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by the server
> > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
> > /usr/bin/X11/WindowMaker fatal error:could not open Display ":0"
>
> you already have :0 running, try another display:
> startx -- :1
sorry, i didn't read it clearly the first time, i thought you were
trying to run xdm and startx on the same (virtual) machine.
does a "failsafe" login work? (press F1 instead of return after your
password). if it does work, what is $DISPLAY ?
are you sure xdm is running on :0 ? (you could find out by looking in
/tmp/.X11-unix/, and seeing which sockets were opened / exist /
recently modified)
you should also try a .xsession that dumped "echo $DISPLAY" and "xauth
list" to a file somewhere, then check that afterwards to see what's
going on.
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- Gus
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