[LightDM] Greeter and other clients cannot connect to X server

[Robert Ancell]

(I've put the fix in to lp:lightdm if anyone else wants to test)


On 14 March 2014 16:46, Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> wrote:

> For anyone following this thread:
> - Bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260220.
> - We have a candidate fix which is syncing the X authority before starting
> the X server.
> - One person indicates this has fixed the problem for them.
> - I haven't been able to reproduce locally, so this fix is just an
> educated guess. If this is the correct fix it probably depends on how fast
> your IO is and what sort of filesystem / storage hardware you are using.
>
> --Robert
>
>
> On 27 November 2013 23:33, Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> wrote:
>
>> * Robert Ancell <robert.ancell at gmail.com> [2013-11-26 04:51]:
>> > The first place to look should be the X authority file - perhaps it has
>> got
>> > corrupt for some reason? If you could copy it from inside the scripts
>> > before and after they run it would be useful to analyse. The authority
>> file
>> > is deleted once the X server stops.
>>
>> I've had one of the users extract the xauthority file[*] before
>> starting the X server (by wrapping the xserver-command) and at
>> the beginning of the greeter-setup-script, based on a quick
>> examination with xauth the seem intact, yet tools in the same
>> greeter-setup-script cannot connect.
>>
>> * https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846832#c11
>>
>> >
>> > Unfortunately xlib/xcb is not very good at reporting why it can't
>> connect
>> > to the X server :(
>>
>> I'm completely in the dark, any other ideas? Should I open a bug
>> on launchpad yet?
>> --
>> Guido Berhoerster
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