I have several servers all showing the same problem. I have redhat 8.0
and fvwm 2.4.14.
On the console (:0.0) after running a session for about 2 weeks, I lose
the ability to launch new programs from fvwm. If I open a shell window
and try to launch any program (xcalc, for example), I get an error:
Error: Can't open display: :0
There is not the usual Xauth message indicating that the connection was
refused etc. Just the message showing the failure. "xauth list" shows
a cookie for the display that looks like it is supposed to.
If I do:
export DISPLAY=hostname:0.0
then I can launch programs from the shell window (via tcp), but if I
again do:
export DISPLAY=:0
It still fails. So its like unix access to the server doesn't work, but
tcp access still does.
If I try to restart fvwm, the session crashes and I have to log back in
again. Then the session works for a number of days again and then
mysteriously fails again.
I thought of always starting fvwm with -d hostname:0.0, but no luck. It
still forces the DISPLAY variable to :0.0. Besides, the unix connection
is supposed to be more efficient so it would be nice if I could get it
to work.
I don't know if this is an fvwm or an X problem but I wanted to see if
anyone else had seen it or knows what it is. And I don't think I've
ever seen it on a stock (gnome) redhat box.
Kyle
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Received on Mon Dec 30 2002 - 13:17:42 GMT