Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 21:24:26 +0100 From: Eivind Evensen <eivinde@terraplane.org> To: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XDM authorization key matches an existing client Message-ID: <20141027202426.GA32910@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> In-Reply-To: <EBE51260-A6C4-4AD5-9714-CDB1BAFDF799@jnielsen.net> References: <20141027185600.GC32314@klump.hjerdalen.lokalnett> <EBE51260-A6C4-4AD5-9714-CDB1BAFDF799@jnielsen.net>
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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. Eivind > JN
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