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Re: [SLE] SU can't connect. Why?
  • From: Marshall Heartley <heartley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 09 May 2003 09:04:02 -0400
  • Message-id: <1052485442.2340.3.camel@xxxxxxxxx>
On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 08:46, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> This one has to be simple, but I can't find a reason.
>
> I open a Konsole, run emacs, everything is fine.
> I enter su and the password, try to run emacs and get the following:
>
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
>
> When I tried to run the mozilla 1.3.1 installer as su, I get the same error.
> It looks to this relative newbie that there is something configured that su
> doesn't have, but what's the missing piece?

The X server is fefusing the connection. Try runnung the command using
sux instead. Try sux -c emacs.

--
Marshall

"Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the
impossible, possible."


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