On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 09:03:25PM +0100, Richard P. Groenewegen wrote: > [2] Logging in is still impossible: my password is accepted but > apparently I cannot connect to the X-server (here is my > .xsession-errors:) > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server > xrdb: Can't open display ':0' > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > ... > After less than a second, the login screen is there again. > > This is both a cry for help as a (not so precise) bug-report. I'm > happy to give whatever information you might need about (configuration > files on my) computer.
I have seen a similar symptom on 1 out of three computers that I have running potato. In my case, I am not running xdm but gdm and I am able to log in and run any X applications from the GUI but if I try to run one from a command line in a a terminal, I get the same message. This happens only when I am using a Gnome session. With a Debian session it works fine. Furthermore, as root there are no problems. Since I am seeing this on one of three machines which are presumabley set up in the same way, I am presuming that it is some incorrect configuration file somewhere. If anyone has an insight, I would appreciate it. My next move is to purge all X packages and reinstall... Carlo Segre Assoc. Prof. of Physics Illinois Institute of Technology
