Re: make xconfig & xfree???

From: Jeremy Brown (jeremy_at_brownjava.org)
Date: 09/30/04

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To: Robert Tilley <tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org

    Robert Tilley wrote:

    >Make was issued as root. Why can't root connect to the xserver?
    >
    >root@debian-rtg:/usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1# make xconfig
    > HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep
    > HOSTCC scripts/basic/split-include
    > HOSTCC scripts/basic/docproc
    > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
    > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kconfig_load.o
    > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
    > HOSTCXX scripts/kconfig/qconf.o
    > HOSTCC -fPIC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
    > HOSTLLD -shared scripts/kconfig/libkconfig.so
    > HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/qconf
    >scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
    >qconf: cannot connect to X server
    >make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 1
    >make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
    >
    >Any ideas welcome, Bob
    >
    >

    Might want to try doing:

    bash$ xhost +

    as a regular user, before attempting to connect to the X server as root.

    Jeremy 

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