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  1. Bug #7022
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 7022

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In , Martijn van de Streek (martijn-foodfight) wrote : Re: Bug#259215: mozilla-firefox: firefox fails to start with 'Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server'

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.

Martijn
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