On 02/03/2016 02:04:32 PM, Jörg Schaible wrote: > 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. >
Thanks Jörg! My icedtea doesn't have the headless-awt use flag. I've replaced eant dist-optimized by eant -Djava.headless.awt=true dist-optimized in the ebuild, but it didn't help. Helmut
