Subj : Re: Can't open display: :0.0
To   : comp.os.linux
From : xproe
Date : Fri Jul 30 2004 11:08 pm

noone@celeron.local (Wiseguy) wrote in message news:<410abf08_5@127.0.0.1>...
> xproe@yahoo.com (wendy) tried to express:
> > I tried to use xpdf to open a .pdf file in my home directory which is
> > mounted on my local machine from our unix server. It has problem as
> > following:
> > --------------------------------
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> >  
> > Error: Can't open display: :0.0
> > ---------------------------------
> > The problem happened since yesterday. I delete some files from /tmp
> > directory.
> 
> Without seeing your xserver config files I cannot say for sure but IIRC
> some X implementations use a pipe in the /tmp directory to route X
> commands from the server to the display.  You could have erased the neededstuff in /tmp.  Do other X programs work?  Have you logged out and logged in 
> again since deleting the /tmp files?  What about a reboot?  That might
> fix the /tmp issues.
> 
> Are you logged into the machine that is running the X server are
> you running xpdf remotely from a different client workstation?


No, other X programs also don't work. I have logged out and logged in
again since deleting the /tmp files. Yes, reboot seems solve the
problem, but after I logged out again, problem appear again. I found
may be the file of /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 has been deleted, do you know how
to  recover it?

I ran xpdf on local workstation to access a remote file. My home
directory is on a remote server.
Thanks!

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