I finally gave up and did a re-installed of Raspbian and everything is back to normal. Since I do regular backups of /home and /etc, I got everything back to normal with no major problems.
On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:20:12 +0100 Tzafrir Cohen <tzaf...@cohens.org.il> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:54:01AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > I really don't know how I screwed this up, but I've been "playing" > > with this for hours with no success. > > > > I have a raspberry PI file server. I rarely use the GUI and when I > > do it's usually over VNC (I use KRDC) or with ssh -X. > > > > As of today: > > 1 - KRDC won't connect > > > > 2 - ssh -X pi@pi (pi is defined in /etc/hosts) gives only a > > console login and says: > > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > > > > What are the values of DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY when you connect via > ssh? > > > 3 - I connected a monitor directly to the PI and it will not accept > > the pi password when I try to login to X11 - but DOES accept the > > root password. So X11 is OK, but only for root - not the regular pi > > user. > > I must be missing something, but: how are the two related? In (2) you > try to authorize X11 programs on the pi to connect to an X server > running on your PC. > > In (3) you run an X server on the pi (and X11 clients running on the > pi that should connect to it). > -- Shlomo Solomon http://the-solomons.net Claws Mail 3.11.1 - KDE 4.14.30 - Dolphin 4.14.3 - LINUX Mageia 5 _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il