From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OHbHO-00056G-GP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 May 2010 11:29:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3084FE0B29; Thu, 27 May 2010 11:29:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BAC6E0B29 for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 11:29:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C83647BC9A for ; Thu, 27 May 2010 07:29:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 07:29:08 -0400 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new user can't run X apps Message-ID: <20100527072908.2cb01b8a@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4ca4fde2-cd79-4261-af09-b11bf7d06838 X-Archives-Hash: ac7cc58105f6d30c7b6a955a86ee300a On Wed, 5 May 2010 13:41:19 -0700 Grant wrote: > I created a new user with useradd but I get X errors like "cannot open > display" and "cannot connect to X server" when I try to run X apps as > the new user. I've tried restarting with the same results. Does > anyone know why this is happening? > > - Grant Have you tried strace? It'll help tell what the app is doing just before the "cannot open ..." message is displayed. HTH, David