Hi Helmut, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi, > > when emerging sci-geosciences/josm-9999 I get a Java error : > > > java.awt.AWTError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the > value of the DISPLAY variable. > > > This is on a local machine using DISPLAY :0 > > Would anybody please shed some light on this error. > > (Emerge version 9060 proceeds just fine) > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut during the ebuild a Java application is running that requests the presence of X. So you're either on a machine without X or your JDK has no X support. E.g. the icedtea variants have a flag 'headless-awt' wich turns off X suport if active (and the name and meaning of the flag recently changed from 'X'). As another alternative you may try to fix the ebuild by running the java application in question with system property "-Djava.headless.awt=true". This can succeed if the application just initializes AWT, but does not use it to display something. Cheers, Jörg
