From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 25 05:01:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D562E1065670 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:01:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC5698FC0A for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id n8P51GUt033574 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:01:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id n8P51GeZ033573; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA21090; Thu, 24 Sep 09 21:50:31 PDT Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:53:03 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: mexas@bristol.ac.uk Message-Id: <4abc4caf.m8Ym87R177g+59be%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20090924154902.GA13279@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090924154902.GA13279@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X - after some time can't lauch new windows, Error: Can't open display X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:01:23 -0000 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > After some time I cannot open any new windows in X, > I get > No protocol specified > Error: Can't open display: :0.0 > > This is on i386 9.0-current with ... xorg-7.4_2, > xorg-server-1.6.1,1, xf86-video-intel-2.7.1 ... > After logging into X via xdm I can launch new windows fine. > But after a while, probably several hours, an attempt to > launch a new window, i.e. any program that opens a new window, > like xterm or xpdf, results in the error message above. I have not seen this with local clients, but I _have_ seen something similar from time to time with remote (ssh tunneled) clients. IIRC there was also some kind of squawk about display permissions, as if something related to xauth had gotten messed up. I'm running FreeBSD 6.1 with Xorg 6.9.0; remotes are various Linux and Solaris boxes (and I haven't made note of their versions, nor if the problem happens with some remote versions and not others). Point being that, if we're both seeing the same issue or closely related, it's not of recent origin.