Re: [LUG] make xconfig problem

[Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:11:18 +0100
paul sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am using suse 9.1 and tying to run make xconfig from within 
> /usr/src/linux but get the following error
>
> scripts/kconfig/qconf arch/i386/Kconfig
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> qconf: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> make[1]: *** [xconfig] Error 1
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
>
>
> make menuconfig works after I installed ncurses,  but whats wrong 
> above?  I also checked I had tcl and tk installed along with make and 
> related (which were not there earlier so i had to install them)

The problem is that your X server isn't allowing X applications as any user other 
than the current user?  You're running make xconfig as root?  The X session was not 
initiated as root, but as paul (just guessing your username :p).

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to solve this.  On systems that fall foul of this, 
I usually either resort to non-GUI applications or I open a console, login as root 
and run a new X session (startx -- :1).

Sorry.

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