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- From: merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt)
- Subject: Re: Xlib: connection to "Silver: 0.0" refused by server
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.162016.18745@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Climate and Radiation Branch
- References: <DFk=Ta#@engin.umich.edu> <v4fddoc@zola.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:20:16 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <v4fddoc@zola.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- |> In <DFk=Ta#@engin.umich.edu> hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig) writes:
- |> | Intermittently it doesn't allow users to log in from the console:
- |> | from the login window, a user types name and password, the screen
- |> | clears, and a few seconds later the login window reappears. If the
- |> | user tries a second time, there's no problem!
- [...]
- |> Looks like your xhost -, wasn't followed by an xhost +localhost, or
- |> localhost isn't recognized as being 'Silver'.
-
- Also, check that you don't have more than ONE xdm process for each
- console, or x-server. I had this very problem, when I had two xdm's
- for the same xterminal. A good example of a race condition and every
- now and again some one wins.
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