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Date:      Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:42:06 +0100
From:      "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To:        Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>
Cc:        "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11
Message-ID:  <4D4A6A5E.7030408@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <8662t2okjv.fsf@gmail.com>
References:  <4D491AB4.7090700@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <8662t2okjv.fsf@gmail.com>

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On 02/02/11 10:25, Anonymous wrote:
> "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)?

I did. Adding DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 to xdm-config 
didn't make the problem disappear, only a global 'xhost +' helped. I 
also tried xhost + localhost:0.0 and all IP- or name-based combinations 
even FQDN/IP of the host, without success, except pure 'xhost +'.



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