raspberry PI - no X11

[Shlomo Solomon]

I finally gave up and did a re-installed of Raspbian and everything is
back to normal. Since I do regular backups of /home and /etc, I got
everything back to normal with no major problems.


On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:20:12 +0100
Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 11:54:01AM +0200, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> > I really don't know how I screwed this up, but I've been "playing"
> > with this for hours with no success.
> > 
> > I have a raspberry PI file server. I rarely use the GUI and when I
> > do it's usually over VNC (I use KRDC) or with ssh -X. 
> > 
> > As of today:
> > 1 - KRDC won't connect
> > 
> > 2 - ssh -X pi at pi   (pi is defined in /etc/hosts) gives only a
> > console login and says: 
> > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> > 
> 
> What are the values of DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY when you connect via
> ssh?
> 
> > 3 - I connected a monitor directly to the PI and it will not accept
> > the pi password when I try to login to X11 - but DOES accept the
> > root password. So X11 is OK, but only for root - not the regular pi
> > user.
> 
> I must be missing something, but: how are the two related? In (2) you
> try to authorize X11 programs on the pi to connect to an X server
> running on your PC.
> 
> In (3) you run an X server on the pi (and X11 clients running on the
> pi that should connect to it).
> 



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