On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 14:20:26 +0200, Michael Hanke wrote: > Since a few weeks I'm experiencing the situation that from time to time > local X clients cannot connect to the local X server: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xcalc > No protocol specified > Error: Can't open display: :0 > > > While at the same time foreign clients (via SSH connection) can connect > without problems: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/local2/working/hanke/catface2$ xcalc > Warning: Cannot convert string "calculator" to type Pixmap > Warning: Cannot convert string > "gray3?foreground=gray70&background=gray85" to type Pixmap > What's the value of $DISPLAY in both cases? If you could install libx11-6-dbg (and maybe libxcb-xlib0-dbg and libxcb1-dbg) and trace what's happening when this fails, using gdb, that would probably help a lot.
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