XDM authorization key matches an existing client

[Eivind Evensen]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 01:24:55PM -0600, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Eivind Evensen <eivinde at terraplane.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello. On FreeBSD elg.hjerdalen.lokalnett 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE,
> > I have a problem running certain X programs.
> > 
> > They tell me:
> > .milkytracker
> > XDM authorization key matches an existing client!Couldn't initialize SDL:
> > Couldn't open X11 display
> > 
> > 
> > Using xhost +localhost works around the problem, but I'd rather not
> > have to do that if avoidable.
> > 
> > I can't really see anything in the options for sdl that seems to
> > have an impact. Does anybody have any ideas where I can start to look?
> 
> I had a similar (IIRC) problem recently. Try appending
>   DisplayManager*authName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> to /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config and restart xdm and your session.
> That disables the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 authentication which, in my case,
> solved the problem.

Thank you, that solves the problem here aswell. I didn't make the connection
between the section describing this setting in man xdm and my problem.

Eivind

> JN