Bug 36429 - Improve error message when authentication fails
Summary: Improve error message when authentication fails
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 25722
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Lib/Xlib (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: low minor
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2011-04-20 09:45 UTC by Jonathon Jongsma
Modified: 2011-10-09 02:11 UTC (History)
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Description Jonathon Jongsma 2011-04-20 09:45:30 UTC 
In the past I have been able to run an xlib-based program from a virtual console (assuming I have a valid X session on display :0.0) with a simple command such as:
$ DISPLAY=:0.0 xterm

After upgrading to gdm3, I am unable to do this because gdm3 apparently sets an XAUTHORITY var to a file under /var/run/gdm3/...  Which is fine -- I just need to set XAUTHORITY to the proper value when I launch an app from a virtual console.  The problem is that the error message I got did not give any indication that the auth token was the problem.  It would be nice if the error message was a bit more helpful than this:

$ DISPLAY=:0.0 xrandr
No protocol specified
Can't open display: :0.0
Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2011-10-09 02:11:26 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25722 ***

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