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X starts denying me access



I've seen this error occur in the past when the hostname of the system 
gets changed.  Did you happen to manually change your hostname?  Or 
perhaps you're getting a hostname from the dhcp server, and your lease 
expired?  

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Duane Morin wrote:

> I'll be running just fine for hours on my Redhat 9 laptop, opening windows 
> at will.  Then all of a sudden I'll try to do something that requires 
> a window opening and get 
> 
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>  
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"
> 
> 
> I've done nothing different, and this error is thrown by the exact same 
> shell that 5 minutes ago let me open a window just fine.
> 
> What could be going on behind the scenes that's causing this?  I should 
> mention that when I say "opening windows at will" I don't mean hundreds, I 
> mean a handful - maybe a dozen, tops.  And, right now, there's maybe 5 
> open.
> 
> Duane
> 
> 
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