X loses connection with server

[John Altenmueller]

Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> That is a common problem when a system's hostname changes.
>
> Maybe your hostname changed?
I haven't noticed a hostname change. It's always set to 'speedy' as far 
as I can tell.

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> John Altenmueller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm not really sure how to explain this problem -- what basically 
>> happens is I'm working away in wmii or fluxbox or whatever, and suddenly 
>> I try to open an application, and then, well, it doesn't open. If I go 
>> over to a running xterm and try to launch the application from there, I 
>> get the following error message:
>>
>> Can't open display :0.0
>
> If you have a cron job or other script removing files in /tmp, make sure
> it skips over /tmp/.X11-unix .
>
I just have the default crontab that came with Arch Linux. All it runs 
is logrotate, shadow, updatedb, and whatis. I'll check /tmp the next 
time this happens though.

Thanks,

John