Re: [GENERAL] pgaccess failed, used to work

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Eric Webber wrote:

> pgaccess used to work fine, now I get this, I changed nothing,
>
> have no idea why, anyone else see this.  only thing I did
> was restart X. doesnt matter which user either
>
> regards,
> Eric streethockey@ureach.com
>
> pgaccess &
> [1] 19239
> [root@gims X11]# Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "192.168.0.3"

Don't work as root!

It seems that you did a "su" or "telnet" to your local or another
machine and then started pgaccess. Either your DISPLAY variable isn't
correct (it should be something like 192.168.0.3:0 - ipaddress of the
machine where your X-server runs and a display number, eg 0 for the
first X-server) or you forgot to issue a "xhost +xxx" where xxx is the
name or the ip address of the machine running pgaccess.

It is no pgaccess problem. xclock won't work, either. I recommend using
ssh with enabled X11-forwarding, that does the job of setting DISPLAY
and permissions automagically.


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