X starts denying me access

[gboyce at badbelly.com]

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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