[X2Go-User] Display stopped working??

Michael DePaulo mikedep333 at gmail.com
Sun Jan 25 18:54:36 CET 2015


Hi Neil,

There are 2 troubleshooting commands I can think of off the top of my
head. Please copy and paste the output from #1, and attach the output
from #2?

1.
echo $XAUTHORITY

2.
xdpyinfo

-Mike#2

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Cohen, Neil <ncohen at verisign.com> wrote:
> I’m running X2go on a Mac, and connecting to a VM running Fedora 20. It’s
> been running for a couple of weeks now without any problems.
>
> This morning, I typed in the command “gvim”  and got a message that the
> display wasn’t working – it opened vi in the terminal window instead of
> popping up a new window.
> The display is working fine…
>
> I tried the command ‘xterm’ and got this:
>
> [ncohen at ncohen-dev-fedora bin]$ xterm
> No protocol specified
> xterm: Xt error: Can't open display: :51
>
> It was working fine 2 minutes ago – system has not been updated or rebooted.
> SELinux is installed and in permissive mode.
>
> I’m not sure if this is something to do with X2go or with Fedora – I’ve
> never seen it before. Anyone have any idea what might be going on here?
> Existing windows on my screen seem to be working fine, but I can’t open any
> new windows… I’m confused – any help would be most appreciated…
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> nbc
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