Comment 29 for bug 7022

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In , Eric Dorland (eric-debian) wrote : Re: Bug#272929: mozilla-firefox: (firefox-bin:16601): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display

severity 272929 normal
merge 259215 272929
forwarded 259215 http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=246313
thanks

* Anders Bostr?m (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> >>>>> "ED" == Eric Dorland <email address hidden> writes:
>
> ED> * Anders Bostr?m (<email address hidden>) wrote:
> >> Package: mozilla-firefox
> >> Version: 0.9.3-5
> >> Severity: important
> >>
> >> I upgraded mozilla-firefox today, to the new version in testing,
> >> removed .firefox and .mozilla/firefox and started mozilla-firefox with
> >> the following result:
> >>
> >> # mozilla-firefox
> >> auto selected locale: en-US
> >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> >> Xlib: XDM authorization key matches an existing client!
>
> ED> Were you root when you did this? Were other mozilla-firefox instances
> ED> running when did this (even under a different user?)?
>
> No I was an ordinary user, logged in via XDM , and no other
> mozilla-firefox instance was running.

This is a weird bug. Take a look at the forwarded url for
workarounds.

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