niko2@laptop ~ $ okular Maximum number of clients reachedokular: cannot connect to X server :0 Xorg server 1.9.4-rc2 mesa git, libdrm git, xf86-video-intel git kernel 2.6.38+drm-intel-fixes gentoo amd64 gma45 I have this problem since a long time. After some hours of use I get this message when I try to start an application.
One has to ask: just how many clients are connected and have ever been connected to the Xserver?
Not sure what do you mean with clients, but I have just few apps opened and no one is using X through ssh.
Uhm.. I don't think it does fit "Server/general" because I have another gentoo box with an almost identical setup and I never had a problem (radeon powered).
> Not sure what do you mean with clients, but I have just few apps opened In X Windows terminology, clients refers to any application which connects to the X Server. So, each app is a client; some multi-threaded apps open one connection per thread and would then be one client for each such thread. There are also clients which do not create windows, such as xset(1), xdpyinfo(1), glxinfo(1) and the like. You might have something running in the background—or trying to—which repeats its connection attempt so often that is breaks the server. Does top(1) show anything odd running in the background? Is there anyting in your Xorg.0.log (probably in /var/log/) about repeated connections?
> Does top(1) show anything odd running in the background? No > Is there anyting in your Xorg.0.log (probably in /var/log/) about repeated connections? No
I still have that problem with xorg-server-1.10 and latest graphic stack from git.
Mass closure: This bug has been untouched for more than six years, and is not obviously still valid. Please file a new report if you continue to experience issues with a current server.
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