[CLUE-Tech] wierd vi behavior

[Dave Price]

Cluebies:

When I ssh into my debian/knoppix box and try to run 'vi' or
'/usr/bin/vim' i get:

X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server
shutdown).

This does not seem right.  Also, it only happens when I su to 'root' - I
can run vi fine as a normal user.

Any idea what's going on?

aloha,
dave