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Hello!

We're setting up a bunch of Ultra 30's (Solaris 2.6), and seeing
some X errors.  In particular, when we fire up FrameMaker, it
will freeze with the following error:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

I realize this is probably an X tunable parameter, but not
knowing too too much about Solaris - not sure which one..

Anyone have any ideas??

Thanks!
Peggy

Quote:>We're setting up a bunch of Ultra 30's (Solaris 2.6), and seeing
>some X errors.  In particular, when we fire up FrameMaker, it
>will freeze with the following error:
>Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
>Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
>I realize this is probably an X tunable parameter, but not
>knowing too too much about Solaris - not sure which one..
>Anyone have any ideas??

The solution, is make sure your DISPLAY variable is setup right, and
that your ~/.Xauthority is setup correctly. If you are running a the
user that is logged in, this should be all automatic for you.

You'll run into this alot when you 'su' and forget to exit out of the
root shell (running as root) and run the program. root doesn't have
permission by default to display to your X screen.

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Quote:

> We're setting up a bunch of Ultra 30's (Solaris 2.6), and seeing
> some X errors.  In particular, when we fire up FrameMaker, it
> will freeze with the following error:

> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

Certain applications seem to create a lot of client connections that
don't get closed. Wabi in particular - we had to stop using it
completely, as it left the X server in this state about 1 time in
3. You can look in /proc/#####/fd (where ##### is the pid of the X
server) to see how many file descriptors the X server is using, as it
can run out.

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-Peter Tribble
HGMP Computing Services
http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/

George

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Thanks for answering so far.. I have to *test out* the xhost + theory,
but that cannot be the final solution for security reasons.. Is there
a file that I can configure to up the number of descriptors allowed
for the Xserver?? =)

Thank you again!
Peggy

: Try typing "xhosts +" (no quotes) at the command prompt.  Worked for
: me...

: George

: >>
: >> We're setting up a bunch of Ultra 30's (Solaris 2.6), and seeing
: >> some X errors.  In particular, when we fire up FrameMaker, it
: >> will freeze with the following error:
: >>
: >> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
: >> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
: >
: >I've seen this fairly often under 2.6 as well (not with FrameMaker,
: >just in normal use). I don't know if the client limit got smaller, or
: >whether I've just got more windows open than I used to (although I'm
: >having to consciously open less windows than before, so I suspect the
: >server). There are certainly a bunch of bug reports in sunsolve about
: >this.
: >
: >Certain applications seem to create a lot of client connections that
: >don't get closed. Wabi in particular - we had to stop using it
: >completely, as it left the X server in this state about 1 time in
: >3. You can look in /proc/#####/fd (where ##### is the pid of the X
: >server) to see how many file descriptors the X server is using, as it
: >can run out.
: >
: >--
: >-Peter Tribble
: >HGMP Computing Services
: >http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/~ptribble/

Quote:> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached
> I realize this is probably an X tunable parameter, but not
> knowing too too much about Solaris - not sure which one..
> Anyone have any ideas??

We simply had to reduce the number of clients - a huge pain in
the *- and live with it.

I must admit that we have a huge amount of clients running and
a lot of open windows. xwininfo -root -children gave an output
of 4000+ lines. If you have a different scenario there still  
may be a problem with the server.

Regards
Arnold

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