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 _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ Hopkins Research Ltd _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ http://www.hopkins-research.com/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ 'touch the future' _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
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