Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 04/26/2010 10:59 AM, Dale wrote:
>> walt wrote:
>>> On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use
>>>> it on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this
>>>> little error message:
>>>>
>>>> root@smoker / # elogviewer
>>>> No protocol specified
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57:
>>>> GtkWarning: could not open display
>>>
>>> Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run
>> hp-setup a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error:
>>
>> No protocol specified
>> hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0
>
> Wait, this is more complicated than I thought.  The error above
> clearly mentions
> display :0.0, which should be correct unless you're running multiple X
> sessions.
> When I 'unset DISPLAY' I get 'DISPLAY is not set'.
>
> Do you have any files like /root/.xauthXXXXXX?
>
>

I think I can safely say yes to that question.  I do have a couple.  ;-)

root@smoker ~ # ls /root/.xauth*
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 14:10 /root/.xauth48naIs
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Dec 14 17:31 /root/.xauth9yEErh
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  2  2009 /root/.xauthAfQHY0
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  6  2009 /root/.xauthEltCUe
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Apr 26 14:06 /root/.xauthFBdWPY
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  6  2009 /root/.xauthJJISAe
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  3  2009 /root/.xauthMjZyQi
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 29  2009 /root/.xauthOApO1i
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 25  2009 /root/.xauthSshOXz
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 28  2009 /root/.xauthbFAjxt
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  4  2009 /root/.xauthdKOWE3
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  9  2009 /root/.xauthfCNLCo
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 15  2009 /root/.xauthhhDOTW
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct 15  2009 /root/.xauthjRxXE8
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Dec 13 13:09 /root/.xauthm5cv93
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Sep 23  2009 /root/.xauthnARKQ1
-rw------- 1 root root 51 Oct  2  2009 /root/.xauthnaLVUB
root@smoker ~ #


Do I need to log out of KDE, delete those then login again?  What 
generates those and is something wrong that makes it create those?

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)