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Re: Xlib: connection to "Silver: 0.0" refused by server

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From: John H. Merritt
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:20
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In article <v4fddoc@zola.esd.sgi.com>, olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
|> In <DFk=Ta#@engin.umich.edu> hillig@U.Chem.LSA.UMich.EDU (Kurt Hillig) writes:
|> | Intermittently it doesn't allow users to log in from the console:
|> | from the login window, a user types name and password, the screen
|> | clears, and a few seconds later the login window reappears.  If the
|> | user tries a second time, there's no problem!
[...]
|> Looks like your xhost -, wasn't followed by an xhost +localhost, or
|> localhost isn't recognized as being 'Silver'.

Also, check that you don't have more than ONE xdm process for each
console, or x-server.  I had this very problem, when I had two xdm's
for the same xterminal.  A good example of a race condition and every
now and again some one wins.
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From: merritt@climate.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (John H. Merritt)
Subject: Re: Xlib: connection to "Silver: 0.0" refused by server
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:20:16 GMT
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