----- Original Message ----- From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0
> on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM > > Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 > > > > > > > on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35:02PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > Please can you help with this error? > > > > Below is the log, env and .bashrc > > > > > > > > DISPLAY=debian:0.0;export DISPLAY > > <...> > > > > More useful information: > > > > > > - What command are you running? > > > - What is the *exact* error message? > > > - How is your root session executing? > > You didn't answer this question. Are you logged in directly as root, or > did you run 'su' or 'sudo' from another userid? > > > > - Are you local or remote on this box? > > > > > > > > > If you are logged in as a nonprivileged user, are 'su'd or 'sudo'd to > > > root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local > > > display *and* merging xauth records, as root: > > > > > > # export DISPLAY=<local display> > > > # xauth merge ~/<nonprivileged user>/.Xauthority > > > make xconfig > > cannot open display: debian:0.0 > > root > > local > > That's a bit terser than is useful. > > Are you *logged in as root, directly, on an X display?* I doubt it. > > The solution I suggested previously should work. Try it and report > results. > > Peace. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > make xconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts kconfig.tk make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk chmod 755 kconfig.tk make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts' wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to display "10.100.4.2:0.0" Error in startup script: invalid command name "button" while executing "button .ref" (file "scripts/kconfig.tk" line 51) make: *** [xconfig] Error 1 Yes I was login directly as root Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
