Bug 25722

Summary:	Error "No protocol specified" is uninformative
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	paxed
Component:	Lib/Xlib	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	minor
Priority:	low	CC:	antoine, jonathon
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	love
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	2011BRB_Reviewed
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description paxed 2009-12-19 07:11:12 UTC

If eg. ~/.Xauthority is unreadable, X will spew "No protocol specified" error, but the error is singularly uninformative, and the cause cannot be found in log files either.  I had to resort to strace to find out what it wanted.

Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2009-12-21 08:11:17 UTC

Assigning to Xlib component, since those messages (which are admittedly
confusing and need help) come from XOpenDisplay() in libX11.

Comment 2 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-09 02:11:26 UTC

*** Bug 36429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-10 20:09:26 UTC

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