On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Steve C wrote:
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:19:11 +0100
> From: Steve C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Oleksiy (alex) Bolgarov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
>
> What you are missing I think, is the env variable display.
> With RH 5.1 / Xfree 3.2.2I have never needed this, but at
> work Sun Solaris, DEC need the environment variable DISPLAY set
For Linux the DISPLAY=":0.0", like he has it, works just fine.
I think he hasn't installed the right server for his card and that that is
causing the errors.
> Oleksiy (alex) Bolgarov wrote:
> >
> > Hello All!
> >
> > I logged to Linux as non-root user, started X11 (by sratrx),
> > then, in xterm, su-ed to root and tried to run xemacs.
> >
> > It printed following:
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> >
> > Initialization error: X server not responding
> > : ":0.0"
> >
> > -----------------------
> >
> > What does this mean?
> >
> > And. please, can somebody point me to the information
> > about internal work of X11?
> >
> > alex
>
>
>
Karel
Karel Bemelmans, Narfum Inc.
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