Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 00:57:55 +0000 From: Michael Hopkins <michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com> To: <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Remote machine suddenly can't open X display Message-ID: <BE6BB593.36657%michael.hopkins@hopkins-research.com>
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Hi all
I have been happily connecting to a remote machine (with ssh -X -c blowfish)
for 2 weeks and running X apps over the network. It has been working very
well, but this afternoon I started getting messages like this:
mwh@Athlon ~ % gedit &
[1] 609
mwh@Athlon ~ %
(gedit:609): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
[1]+ Exit 1 gedit
mwh@Athlon ~ % dx &
[1] 610
mwh@Athlon ~ % Error: Can't open display: :0.0
[1]+ Exit 1 dx
mwh@Athlon ~ % wish8.4
Application initialization failed: this isn't a Tk applicationcouldn't
connect to display ":0.0"
% mwh@Athlon ~ %
...and now I cannot run any X apps at all. I can't remember having made any
controversial changes that would have caused this so I rebooted both my
local machine (OS X laptop) and the remote server (FreeBSD 5.3p5 amd64) but
no change.
Can anyone advise me where to look to solve this problem? Error logs?
Environment variables? (<- my local login .bash_profile contains
DISPLAY=:0.0 and export DISPLAY as recommended). Diagnostic tools?
TIA
Michael
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