X permission errors on starting another X on :1
 

hey running suse 9.3 and loving it trying to fix an increadably irritating bug with the X system.
running startx <app> -- :1 will start the session ok
but almost exclusively after session has been ended on :0 i always get this error and it prevents me from running ANY X program only reason i am able to enter this message is that it only prevents new programs from starting here is the error i get on running any program using X:

@linux:~> kate
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

kate: cannot connect to X server :0.0

running kate in sudo gave me this:
@linux:~> sudo kate
Password:
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-ryan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-root"
QFile::open: No file name specified

this also caused kate to ask if i wanted to start a new session. maybe i am missing something but i would really like to find out what it is.:mad:

cheers netsurf

Its not a bug of X!
Add -auth ~/.Xauthority as option to X

can you show me how to place it in the command:
starx /usr/games/ut2004/ut2004 -- :1 -auth ~/.Xauthority
that is what i tried but after a short delay after session ended the problem started again so is that right?

Should be fine like this.
After rereading your first post, you say that its when you shutdown X on :0 that :1 has a problem?

When you launch startx, you do not launch it from :0 but from a console (tty1)?
startx gives you some errors?

I don't exactly understand what you are doing in fact :)

ok lets try to make this clearer then.
i have discovered the usefulness of having more than one screen at a time. it is idea for running ut2004 on :1 while the rest of my system is on :0 (kde desktop)
i have also noticed that ut2004 is a bit quicker imho when it has its own screen.
i launch startx from konsole as it is just convinient but if i recall correctly i used to try and run ut2004 using twm in :1 instead and had to stop that as after ending my X session on :1 i got a really nasty garbled display which made tty1-6 completely illegable (all words on each terminal were about the same size as a "-"

simply put i want to run things on :1 but when that session ends a short time after i recive x permission errors.

Currently running programs still function fine unless they need to run another program. using root to run the apps does work i think (will test then update) but as you can imagen i really dislike the idea of running apps as root.

i hope this is something to go on as it is a problem that has been bugging me for a while now.

************bump***************** :D

Maybe you need two xorg.conf. The first for :0 should disable dri/drm, 3d acceleration, be very light.
And then for games, you would take another xorg2.conf to enable dri/drm for games on :1.

You say you have permission errors, can you post the output of

Do you have framebuffer? Try to disable it on boot (not passing vga=791 or something like this)

I'm a bit out of idea here, only if something strange appears in log.
What kind of graphic card do you use?

it is an NVIDIA asus fx5200 128mb ram. is it possible that it is an NVIDIA bug an not X?
i oftern use 3d Acelleration on main screen. it does seem like it is driver related as i recall i used to play with using fluxbox on :1 and kde on :0 but when i left :1 it sorta crashed causing some really bad viual damage to all tty and that :1 (alt+ctrl+F8 gives a green slash horisontaly accross the screen instead of a blinking underscore not sure if it is related :/