I just upgraded my system a couple of days ago with xfree 4.2.1-r2 and I can no longer get any remote programs to display on my local machine. At the same time there was an update to baselayout and several other packages. I have no idea where to begin debugging this as I have NEVER had any problems with this and have no clue where to begin. If someone can point me to where to look, I'd be grateful. I can set the DISPLAY environment on my machine and it tries for a few seconds (not an immediate rejection like it was lacking the xhost entry) then says it can not output to the display. If I set the DISPLAY to laptop:1.0 (my VNC session) then all is well. I can also run from my VNC session and set my DISPLAY to :0.0 and it works, just not from any remote machine. One of my machines gives me some nice output so I have it copied below. [walkers@www walkers]$ export DISPLAY=laptop:0.0 [walkers@www walkers]$ xeyes _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 Error: Can't open display: laptop:0.0 TIA, Sean
did you try running `xhost +hostname` ?
I guess I should have stated that exactly. I ran 'xhost +' as well as 'xhost +ws' at various times. It worked until I tried to do it yesterday. I have a program I routinely run on one of my workstations and redirect the output to my laptop. It started failing yesterday. I had not run it in a few days so I'm not exactly sure when it started failing, but I updated xfree in that few days.
please post relevant version of packages you have installed and the output from running `emerge info`
Here are the packages and versions that I can think of that might have something to do with this problem. No clue if there is anything else that can interfere here. xfree 4.2.1-r2 baselayout 1.8.5.5 gnome 2.0.3-r1 gdm 2.4.0.12-r1 Portage 2.0.45-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.1, glibc-2.3.1-r2) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-acpi-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg kde libg++ libwww mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png qtmt quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis qt motif opengl X gtk gnome alsa cdr dvd gd ipv6 mozilla samba" ARCH="x86" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-4 -pipe " CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-4 -pipe " ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" MAKEOPTS="-j2" JDK_HOME="" JAVA_HOME="/opt/blackdown-jre-1.3.1" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
Works fine here ... does vnc need to enable forwarding or whatever ? This is from my gateway box, via a ssh connection (no special setup except running xhost and x11 forwarding for ssh) --------------------- gateway root # echo $DISPLAY nosferatu.lan:0.0 gateway root # echo $HOSTNAME gateway.lan gateway root # xset q Keyboard Control: auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 auto repeat delay: 500 repeat rate: 30 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffb3f 02c0bb7ffedfe4ff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell duration: 100 Pointer Control: acceleration: 2/1 threshold: 4 Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes timeout: 0 cycle: 0 Colors: default colormap: 0x20 BlackPixel: 0 WhitePixel: 65535 Font Path: /home/azarah/.gnome2/share/cursor-fonts,unix/:-1,/home/azarah/.gnome2/share/fonts Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled DPMS (Energy Star): Standby: 900 Suspend: 1200 Off: 1500 DPMS is Enabled Monitor is On Font cache: hi-mark (KB): 1024 low-mark (KB): 768 balance (%): 70 gateway root #
I can't seem to find out any kind of problem, but it doesn't work. Know of any way I can debug this? I have tried everything on the outside and it doesn't give me any good info. I can not find any kind of log stating it works or doesn't on the system itself. It all works fine with the VNC setup, so I know it isn't something funky with my network or any hardware (that is the only reason for mentioning it). I can not get any response from my laptop (laptop:0.0). It is as if the port is completely disabled. I can not find any place that could have disabled it. Is there anything that can force X to only allow connections from the localhost (local connections work fine)? That is what is happening and I have never had this kind of problem with any system so I have absolutely no clue where to start debugging it. Is there some kind of settings file for X remote security? Also, I'm using gdm for my display manager. Oh, my xset q is nearly identical to yours. I have more font directories and my mouse accelleration is higher (glidepoint).
The xset was just to show that it connects to the X server ... You know that gdm now by defaut do not allow remote connections ? Dunno if that might be an issue, as I do not use gdm ... ---------------- # grep tcp /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp -terminate nosferatu root #
No, I didn't know that GDM doesn't allow connections by default now. That is it. Thanks. Works great now. I didn't see that anywhere. :) Sorry for the trouble.
