Two X servers, one box

Cook, Rich cook47 at llnl.gov
Mon Jul 2 18:23:54 PDT 2012


Ah hell, now it's just working.  How strange.  No doubt as soon as I send this it will stop working again. 
Never mind!  Thanks. 

On Jul 2, 2012, at 6:13 PM, Cook, Rich wrote:

> Hi, 
> I am trying to run two instances of X.Org X Server 1.10.4 per node of our dual-GPU Red Hat cluster. 
> I do this: 
> /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/xterm -display :0 -- -nolock -auth /g/g0/rcook/.Xauthority-0 :0
> and this: 
> /usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/xterm -display :1 -- -nolock -auth /g/g0/rcook/.Xauthority-1 :1
> 
> And I almost get there -- in fact, it worked once.  But mostly the X server starts but I get "invalid MIT-MAGICK-COOKIE" errors which don't show up in the Xorg logfile, so I assume I'm very close, just doing something wrong with xauth. 
> 
> Can anyone on this list help a poor man out?  Thanks
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 

-- 
✐Richard Cook   
✇ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Bldg-453 Rm-4024, Mail Stop L-557        
7000 East Avenue,  Livermore, CA, 94550, USA
☎ (office) (925) 423-9605    
☎ (fax) (925) 423-6961
---
Information Management & Graphics Grp., Services & Development Div., Integrated Computing & Communications Dept.
(opinions expressed herein are mine and not those of LLNL)





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