[oe] Devshell X display error

[Charlton, John]

Thank you.  That fixed the problem.

--John

-----Original Message-----
From: openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of Sledz, Steffen
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 9:41 AM
To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [oe] Devshell X display error

> I am getting the following error when I attempt to start a 
> gnome-terminal devshell as follows:
> ...
> NOTE: package linux-2.6.20-r8: task do_devshell: started
> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
> ERROR: function do_devshell failed

I had the same problem when using X11 over ssh redirection. The following part in my .profile helped me.

 if [ -e "$HOME/.Xauthority" ] ; then
     export XAUTHORITY="$HOME/.Xauthority"
 fi

Steffen

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