[CentOS] help with Xlib

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Thu Jan 12 03:17:39 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 01:04 -0200, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:37:30PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > Xlib: connection to "MYHOSTNAME:1.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: no protocol specified
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> > Clues?
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> xhost(1)
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> Also make sure your local X server is configured to accept tcp
> connections, and you have no iptables rules blocking those.
> 
> Among other places, you will want to check for the DisalowTCP
> tag on /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf, if you are using gdm (standard for
> CentOS). I don't remember what the default is.
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thanks but you are still over my head.

xhost +localhost returns the same error.

DisallowTCP is commented in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

The issue seems to be that gdm isn't running...is it supposed to be
running in runlevel 3?

If so...what is the right way to start it?

Craig




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