Jérôme Loisel wrote: > Hi! > > I am having a rather technical problem with my GNU/Linux system. I have > tried really hard to resolve this on my own, and am out of luck. > > The sad thing is I'm not running Debian, but RedHat... However, I don't have > commercial support, and the people on this list feel like The Most Likely to > Actually Be Able to Help Me(TM)... So please help. > > The RedHat 6.1 installer hiccupped on my mouse, so I had to do the text > install. No problem, but the hosts were not configured properly. The > /etc/hosts and related files were empty. I filled them as best I could with > localhost entries, scrupulously following man pages. But I feel something is > still wrong. > > I almost always use X. Well, eventually, after 5 minutes or one day, I can > no longer start new apps. I get an error. (Luckily, it is happening now, and > I am not even kidding, so here is a transcript of terminal 1) > > > "AUDIT: [date]: 1515 X: client X rejected from local host AUTH name: > MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1: ID: -1" > > And trying to start an app from a terminal yields the following results: > > "Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized > to connect to Server kedit: cannot connect to X server :0" > > I read the man pages on security and such. I put "ALL" in /etc/hosts.allow. > I tried erasing the .Xauthority file to see if it wasn't corrupt or > anything. Nothing works. I keep having those problems. > > So here I am, restarting X I don't know how many times a day. And RedHat > can't bring itself to at least host a redhat-help mailing list... or if it > does, mention it on their page. > > In any case, please help me. This is painful. I can provide additional > information to whoever wants it. > > Thanks, and happy coding. > > Jérôme Loisel >
Are you starting X via xdm (gdm, wdm, etc), or via startx? I'm not entirely understanding what's happening. Let's see if I get it: You're starting X, and can work normally for 5 minutes or so, then you can't start any apps after that 5 minutes. However, if you restart X (presumably by Ctrl-Alt-Backspace followed by startx?), you can again start apps and run normally for 5 minutes or so. Is that what's happening?
