Comment 14 for bug 7022

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In , Eric Dorland (eric-dorland) wrote : Re: Bug#259215: mozilla-firefox: firefox fails to start with 'Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server'

severity 259215 normal
reassign 259215 xdm
thanks

Since xdm seems to be the culprit, I'm reassigning.

* Mart??n van de Streek (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Eric Dorland wrote:
>
> > > martijn@hertz:~$ mozilla-firefox
> > > selected locale: en-US
> > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > > Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
> > >
> > > (firefox-bin:11812): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm using experimental (now with the unstable mozilla-firefox, which
> > > seems to be newer), XDM, and removing all of my "mozilla-ish"
> > > directories (.mozilla, .firefox, .phoenix) doesn't seem to fix it.
> >
> > This really, really looks like something more fundamentally wrong with
> > your X configuration. Is any other X application exhibiting strange
> > behavior?
>
> It has something to do with xdm. After switching to gdm, the problem is
> gone.

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