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Old 10-04-2004, 11:24 AM   #1
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xterm problems

Hi.... i want to start the firefox but i have some problems with the X ...

I open a xterm

i run
xhost + localhost
and then i execute the command for the firefox


Xlib:connection to ":0.0: refused by server
Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client


(firefox-bin:5404) : Gtk-Warning **:cannot open display:


If i ran the xterm as root everything works fine...
Any suggestion??
Thx
 
Old 10-04-2004, 01:18 PM   #2
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More input?

Who is the user running the x-session, as which user
are you trying to invoke firefox?


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Old 10-04-2004, 03:10 PM   #3
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I am running the xterm and the command as a normal user..
If i ran them as root (xterm+firefox) evrythiing workks fine
 
Old 10-04-2004, 03:25 PM   #4
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You still didn't say who's running X ...


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Old 10-04-2004, 06:41 PM   #5
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the suse's normal user
 
Old 10-04-2004, 06:52 PM   #6
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Is your firefox run suid to root or something silly
like that?
ls -l `which firefox`


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Old 10-04-2004, 07:08 PM   #7
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Run 'xhost +local:'.
 
Old 10-05-2004, 02:11 PM   #8
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I have the same problem, but it only happens when I'm at runlevel 5. It works fine in runlevel 3.

what does this command do ? Run 'xhost +local:'.
 
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'xhost +local:' allows all local users to connect to the X server.
 
Old 10-09-2004, 02:39 PM   #10
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xm....
Okey i have done what u have told me so far.....

alaios@akroneiro:~> ls -l `which firefox`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2004-10-04 19:07 /usr/local/bin/firefox -> /usr/share
/firefox/firefox
alaios@akroneiro:~> ls -l /usr/share/firefox/firefox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6694 2004-09-14 10:00 /usr/share/firefox/firefox
alaios@akroneiro:~> xhost +local:
non-network local connections being added to access control list
alaios@akroneiro:~> firefox
alaios@akroneiro:~> (The firefox don't start)

Any suggestion?
 
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That's because firefox requires libraries which it
can't find because you're using a symlink to the
executable? Make a script that cd's into /usr/share/firefox
and THEN start firefox from there.


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Old 10-10-2004, 01:41 AM   #12
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Unhappy thx...but
I have tried the following in xterm
/usr/share/firefox/firefox

but still nothing
 
  


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