Bug 44315 – xhost +localhost does not work on my system

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Sean D'Epagnier 2004-03-10 19:43:27 UTC]

In the guide for setting up a 32-bit chroot, it says to run:
xhost +localhost
I was able to get this to work with:
xhost +local:

Maybe you could suggest this to save people time

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
xhost +localhost
Actual Results:  
programs could not connect to the xserver from within the chroot


emerge info
Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-amd64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.3-mm4)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.3-mm4 x86_64 4
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.8
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa amd64 apm arts avi berkdb crypt encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome
gpm gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod motif mozilla mpeg multilib mysql
ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline
sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd truetype usb xml2 xmms xv zlib"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-03-10 19:53:49 UTC]

when you say 'does not work' do you mean 'when i ran `xhost +localhost` it gave me an error <blah blah>' or do you mean 'when i tried to run some command that tried to connect to the X server it failed with error messages about access denied' ?

[Comment 2 Danny van Dyk (RETIRED) 2004-03-20 15:03:59 UTC]

that's right, "xhost +localhost" does not work...
That's an error in the technotes, it should be "xhost +local:" or "xhost +local:localhost"...

[Comment 3 Jason Huebel (RETIRED) 2004-03-21 09:50:33 UTC]

already fixed