[Techtalk] killed my xserver

[Akkana Peck]

Maria McKinley writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I upgraded (some packages, not the kernel), and now I can't run X. :-( I 
> am running Debian stable, Linux version 2.6.8-2-k7. I have tried to 
> re-configure XF86Config-4 with the exact specs of my monitor, but this 
> didn't help. I can't find anything useful in the logs either. Nothing 
> marked error. The only clue is that if I try to do startx (instead of 
> starting it with gdm), I get this message in XFree86.0.log
> 
> AUDIT: Fri Dec  7 00:43:40 2007: 4399 X: client 5 rejected from local host

One thing I'm not clear on -- does X run, but refuse to let clients
connect to it, as this message would imply? Or does X actually exit
and you get your shell prompt back?

I don't know the answer either way, but that would help with
figuring out ways to start tracking the problem down.

I'm seeing lots of pages describing this problem when I google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=client+%22rejected+from+local+host%22
It seems to have several different causes and fixes, so you
might have to try several different approaches -- for some
people it works to remove .Xauthority, for other people it
seems to be a problem with a library, like the nvidioha libglx.so
(so commenting out the glx line on /etc/X11/xorg.conf would probably
test for that).

	...Akkana