Xlib error

[John Vetterli]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 15:50:34 -0500
Matt Cahill <m-cahill-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I'm not sure whether it has anything to do with recently switching
> over to kdm (from gdm), but when I try to start Synaptic (or xhost for
> that matter), I get the following...
> Quote:
> --------------
> root at Apostata:~# synaptic
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> (synaptic:2635): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

Let me guess: from kdm, you log in as a regular user, then in an xterm,
you su to root?  If so, the problem is that the info needed by X's
authorization thingee is in the regular user's .Xauthority, not root's. 
Try try logging in as root, or running "xhost +" before su-ing to root.

JV
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