Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 07:46:05 +0100 From: Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> Subject: Re: XDM authorization key matches an existing client Message-ID: <20141028064605.GB32910@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <20141027221802.GA32726@stack.nl> References: <20141027185600.GC32314@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <EBE51260-A6C4-4AD5-9714-CDB1BAFDF799@jnielsen.net> <20141027202426.GA32910@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <20141027221802.GA32726@stack.nl>
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On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:18:03PM +0100, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 09:24:26PM +0100, Eivind Evensen wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:24:55PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote: > > > On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> wrote: > > > > > Hello. On FreeBSD elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE, > > > > I have a problem running certain X programs. > > > > > They tell me: > > > > .milkytracker > > > > XDM authorization key matches an existing client!Couldn't initialize SDL: > > > > Couldn't open X11 display > > > > > Using xhost +localhost works around the problem, but I'd rather not > > > > have to do that if avoidable. > > > > > I can't really see anything in the options for sdl that seems to > > > > have an impact. Does anybody have any ideas where I can start to look? > > > > I had a similar (IIRC) problem recently. Try appending > > > DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 > > > to /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config and restart xdm and your session. > > > That disables the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authentication which, in my case, > > > solved the problem. > > > Thank you, that solves the problem here aswell. I didn't make the connection > > between the section describing this setting in man xdm and my problem. > > In https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154502 I proposed > to compile xdm without XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 at all (configure > --disable-xdm-auth). There is no real benefit to XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 and > it sometimes breaks things (most annoyingly, it may break logging in). > Debian did the same thing years ago. It sounds to me that that would be a win. Or at the least, if there's ever hope XDM_AUTHORIZATION-1 to give some value, write about it in the ports/package readmes so it's a bit simpler to know what to do. Eivind > Jilles Tjoelker
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