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Date:      Wed, 02 Feb 2011 12:25:08 +0300
From:      Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
To:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11
Message-ID:  <8662t2okjv.fsf@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D491AB4.7090700@zedat.fu-berlin.de> (O. Hartmann's message of "Wed, 02 Feb 2011 09:49:56 %2B0100")
References:  <4D491AB4.7090700@zedat.fu-berlin.de>

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"O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hello.
> I just upgraded openoffice-3.2.1 to openoffice-org-3.3.0 and found
> myself in a serious issue. Opening openoffice works only sporadically,
> in most cases I get the error:
>
> XDM authorization key matches an existing
> client!/usr/local/openoffice.org-3.3.0/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin
> X11 error: Can't open display:
>    Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
>    or check permissions of your X-Server
>    (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

Have you tried to add the following to xdm-config

  DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

or adjusting permissions using xhost(1)?



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