topic Re: XServer Error Message in Operating System - Linux

XServer Error Message

Andrew Kaplan — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:43:36 GMT

We have a Fedora Core 3 system that connects to a remote Red Hat 8.0 system in the following manner: The user runs the xhost + command on the Fedora system and then telnets to the remote 8.0 server via an xterm connection. Once there, the user in the past was able to run emacs and have the emacs application gui appear on the Fedora system's desktop. Recently this has not been the case. The following error message appears instead: cannnot connect to xserver 0.0 Try -d or DISPLAY. Has anyone seen this and know how to troubleshoot it? Thanks.

Re: XServer Error Message

Dave Falloon — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:17:46 GMT

You are probably running Xserver with the --no-listen tcp

You can check the options that X is running with this command:

ps -jxww
or
ps -auxww

If you see x running with the no-listen tcp it's probably set during startup. Check the X startup scripts, I'm not 100% sure but I think they are in /etc/X11/. Recursive grep will find it

grep -ri no-listen /etc/X11/

There is a security concern with opening X to tcp connections. You may want to just ssh instead of telnet and turn on the X forwarding options like so:

ssh -X user@rh8.0machine
then export your DISPLAY env var.

--Dave

--Dave

Re: XServer Error Message

Ian Vaughan — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 12:23:35 GMT

Ht,
try "echo $DISPLAY" at a command line. If it doesn't come back with anything then it isn't set. have a look in the .profile or .bash_profile for the user and see if someone has commented it out.

Should be like
DISPLAY=$( who -mu | cut -d"(" -f1 | tr ")" ":" )0.0 ; export DISPLAY

HTH
Ian

Re: XServer Error Message

Andrew Kaplan — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:12:05 GMT

Hi guys -- I tried the various reconfigurations that were suggested, and unfortunately none worked. Anyone have any other ideas? Thanks.

Re: XServer Error Message

Mobeen_1 — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 04:42:33 GMT

Andrew,
Looks like the display is missing, try the following

$ set DISPLAY :0.0
$ export DISPLAY

regards
Mobeen

Re: XServer Error Message

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 12:43:24 GMT

Hi there --

There is no export command on the remote RH 8 server. Is it an rpm that can be downloaded?

Re: XServer Error Message

Ian Vaughan — Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:28:17 GMT

Hi,
The export command is a built-in part of your shell environment. If you are on fc3 it is most probably the BASH shell. It will be there somewhere - trust us.
Anyhoo - that doesn't solve your real problem...
I take it that the xserver is ok on the FC3 machine and that X apps run ok e.g. xclock or whatever.
Try explicitly setting your display variable on the RH8 box as DISPLAY=:0.0 ; export DISPLAY - is that any better, can you get other xapps to work ovwer the connection, can you narrow it down to an emacs config prob.
HTH
Ian

Re: XServer Error Message

Bejoy C Alias — Mon, 07 Feb 2005 04:12:30 GMT

This may be because of any firewall rules you had configured. Try iptables -F on the fedora machine and then try to run the emacs on the rh 8.0 machine .

Re: XServer Error Message

Rashard Kelly_1 — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 09:07:04 GMT

Hi I ran into the same problem. The way you get around this is by
1.)) editing this file

/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf <<-----

and changing the disallow tcp parameter to false.

# Note: Anytime we find a -query or -indirect on the command line we do
# not add a "-nolisten tcp", as then the query just wouldn't work, so
# this setting only affects truly local sessions.
DisallowTCP=false

2)) Logout of x. ctrl+alt+backspace

3)) Log into a root shell

switch to init3 and then to init5 by running

init 3 init 5

your graphical greeter should pop back up once you change back to init 5.

when you change to init 3 you will not get a promt. when the last service reads ok after issuing the init 3 command type in init 5 and upon pressing enter you will get the graphical greeter login.

log log into the window manager of your choice

open a terminal to ssh to your server
ssh -X
export DISPLAY=
&

this worked for me I hope I did not leave a step out.

Re: XServer Error Message

Jan Sladky — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:17:35 GMT

Hi Andrew,

seems like DISPLAYMANGER has forbiden to listen on port 6000

just do following

on remote export DISPLAY=IP:0.0 where 0.0 means first display first monitor

and change gdm.conf on local

/etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf

to

DisallowTCP=false

rgds Jan

Re: XServer Error Message

Jan Sladky — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:19:40 GMT

I've forgetten,

restart X server or reboot on Fedora

rgds Jan

Re: XServer Error Message

Carl_86 — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:34:08 GMT

Hi,

I had the same problem, and none of the above fixes actually worked. Here's the way that I solved the problem (which is actually two problems - X is disabled by default on FC, and the FC firewall bans X traffic).

1. As root, run gdmconfig and deselect the option that says "Security->Always disallow TCP connections to X server". You could also edit the gdmconfig file and restart X to fix this problem.

2. Run the command "iptables -F" as root. This deletes the firewall rule that bans incoming X connections. This command also deletes all other firewall rules on that machine, but hey, a general solution is always the best option, apparently.