"Herman Van Keer (softouch)" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Before anything else: I upgraded from RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0
>
> My problem:
> I start a terminal session from a non-root account in my KDE.
> I want to verify my backup and start a root session by 'su'
> If I start xbru: I get the following message:
>
> --------- Message -------------------------
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 KEY
> Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display ":0.0"
> Error in startup script: invalid command name "bind"
> --------End of Message ----------------------
>
> Before my upgrade I never had a problem running xbru as root, from
> within a non-root terminal.
>
> Is it :
> -Linux Mandrake upgrade? Security?
> -Xbru?
>
> Any help or directions are welcome.
> Thanks
> Herman
This seems like a very common error, just type in a term as user first
(xhost +localhost)
and after that you can su and start your application enjoy ;-)
sk
