X starts denying me access

[Duane Morin]

 ** smacks himself in the head **

THANK YOU.

Yeah, that's it.  I was test driving Bitkeeper and it had complained that 
my usually irrelevant hostname ('laptop') wasn't legal, so I changed it.
Changed it back and sure enough xhost goes back to working.

Duane

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 gboyce at badbelly.com wrote:

> 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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