xhost+ Unable to open Display

atifrafi · 06-25-2005, 03:01 AM

I am using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 and I have ran the following command successfully:

export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

but after this, when I ran the xhost +, it gave the following error:

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_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for localhost:6000: Temporary fai
lure in name resolution
xhost: unable to open display "localhost:0.0"

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Please help.

Regards

eantoranz · 06-26-2005, 12:22 PM

When this happens to me, it'¡s because i'm not using the account of the user logged in the X session. I mean: Sometimes, I log into my KDE session with my mortal user, I open the terminal, su to root, and then if I try to xhost+ a host, it could fail. If it does, I open another terminal, and from my mortal user, I do the xhost+ and it normally works. Hope that works for you too.