From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#15037: Display can't be opened (display newer than emacs session) Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:19:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1375899683 15445 80.91.229.3 (7 Aug 2013 18:21:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 18:21:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 15037@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Sewall\, Jason" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 07 20:21:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1V78MJ-0007Bt-Uv for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 20:21:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51934 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78MJ-0000vt-Ec for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40588) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78M8-0000sD-Ud for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:21:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78M2-0001ar-Ar for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:21:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78M2-0001al-7G for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:21:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V78M1-0005Ov-MH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:21:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Stefan Monnier Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:21:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 15037 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo X-Debbugs-Original-Cc: "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" , "15037@debbugs.gnu.org" <15037@debbugs.gnu.org> Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.137589963920719 (code B ref -1); Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:21:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2013 18:20:39 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46022 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V78Le-0005O6-P4 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38800) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1V78Lc-0005Nu-U6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78LR-0001VN-0l for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:31 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:51243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78LQ-0001VG-TV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78LL-0000oO-1S for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78L3-0001BK-7r for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:33299) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V78L3-0001A8-3d for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:20:01 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GDMEhkQoDlymNUYFegxM X-IPAS-Result: Av4EABK/CFFLd/Nq/2dsb2JhbABEvw4Xc4IeAQEEAVYjBQsLNBIUGA0kiB4GDMEhkQoDlymNUYFegxM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,565,1355115600"; d="scan'208";a="20874463" Original-Received: from 75-119-243-106.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([75.119.243.106]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 07 Aug 2013 14:19:53 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id D94B266AF2; Wed, 7 Aug 2013 14:19:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Jason Sewall's message of "Wed, 7 Aug 2013 17:31:18 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:77045 Archived-At: >> What does M-: (getenv "XAUTHORITY") RET say in those two Emacs sessions? > For the older session (in the original frame): "/var/run/gdm/auth-for-jsewall-jWCxJH/database" > For a new session started from display :1.0, 'nil'. There's your problem. You're using GDM3 which has the obnoxious habit of putting your authorization keys in a separate file and setting XAUTHORITY to point to it. So your session doesn't have access to the keys you have in your ~/.Xauthority and your other sessions don't have access to this display. See: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=586685 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651431 Note that it's not just Emacs that suffers this way: If M-x make-frame-on-display :1.0 fails for you, then try (in that very same Emacs) to do M-x shell RET xterm --display :1.0 RET it should fail in the same way. Stefan