[X2Go-User] Display stopped working??

Cohen, Neil ncohen at verisign.com
Mon Jan 26 13:38:34 CET 2015


Thanks for the info - I¹ll keep that in mind for next time. In this
particular case, I ended up rebooting both the mac
and my Linux system and the problem went away - no idea what triggered the
issueŠ

But thanks for getting back to meŠ

nbc

On 1/25/15, 12:54 PM, "Michael DePaulo" <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:

>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 $XAUTHORITY
>
>2.
>xdpyinfo
>
>-Mike#2
>
>On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Cohen, Neil <ncohen at verisign.com> wrote:
>> I¹m running X2go on a Mac, and connecting to a VM running Fedora 20.
>>It¹s
>> been running for a couple of weeks now without any problems.
>>
>> This morning, I typed in the command ³gvim²  and got a message that the
>> display wasn¹t working ­ it opened vi in the terminal window instead of
>> popping up a new window.
>> The display is working fineŠ
>>
>> I tried the command Œxterm¹ and got this:
>>
>> [ncohen at ncohen-dev-fedora bin]$ 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.
>>
>> I¹m not sure if this is something to do with X2go or with Fedora ­ I¹ve
>> 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 can¹t open
>>any
>> new windowsŠ I¹m confused ­ any help would be most appreciatedŠ
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> nbc
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