"Xlib: No protocol specified"

OneManArmy · 12-18-2004, 05:59 AM

I just two days ago made a clean net install of Sarge on my brother's
machine. The problem is as following:
When editing any file, for example, using vi in konsole (KDE) and
saving the file, I get this message:

Code:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

I googled for sometime and found something about xhost.
so if I do the following the problem is fixed:

Code:

xhost local:
xhost +localhost

However this fix works only for the current session and is lost as soon
as I reboot. I tried adding the previous 2 commands to "/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc" so that they run as soon as the xserver starts but it didn't have any effect.

Any help/ideas would be highly appreciated.
Thanx.

TLV · 12-19-2004, 03:44 AM

IIRC, I had the same/similar problem, but only when logged in as root. What I (think I) did do was to add the following line in /root/.bashrc (root's home dir):

Code:

cp ~my_regular_user_name/.Xauthority ~

Good luck,
/TLV