I was running from a root shell. Ubuntu does not let me login as root. That is normally a good thing, but if I remember correctly to finish the ccp4i setup last time I on a CentOS system I had to login as root. I will try to reinstall tomorrow using sudo, but frankly I hate using it.
Stuart -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:ccp...@jiscmail.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tim Gruene Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 21:07 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] configuration or install issue with tk With 'sudo' you should not have this issue. I agree, though, that having a separate user account to install crystallographic programs is quite an advantage from an administrative point of view. Tim -- Tim Gruene Institut fuer anorganische Chemie Tammannstr. 4 D-37077 Goettingen GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Mark A. White wrote: > Stuart, > > Are you logged-in as root or are you working in a root shell ( using su > or sudo)? Depending on your security settings X-windows may not permit a > program that is run from a root shell to access the display, which > belongs to the user logged-in through X-windows. > > I get around the administrator access issue by installing CCP4, and all > other non-OS software, with non-root ownership, a non-root administrator > account, which shares the environment with all other users. For one > thing, I do not want to source the multitude of /etc/csh.cshrc and > .bashrc files as root. I am sure that others have different, and > probably more elegant, solutions to this problem. > > PS. It also seems that the TCL/TK environment is not set in the root > shell you are using. > > Good luck, > Mark > > > On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 16:51 -0600, Stuart Endostreeter wrote: > Fellow users, > > I just installed v6.1.2 on Ubuntu 9.0.4 today and have run > into the following problem when I try to run ccp4i for the > first time as root to configure the program: > > r...@########:/home/########/Documents# ccp4i > No protocol specified > Application initialization failed: couldn't connect to > display ":0.0" > Error in startup script: can't read "tk_version": no such > variable > while executing > "catch "set system(TK_VERSION) $tk_version"" > (file "/usr/local/ccp4/ccp4-6.1.2/ccp4i/bin/ccp4i.tcl" > line 1) > (file "/usr/local/ccp4/ccp4-6.1.2//bin/ccp4i" line 1) > > The odd thing is that I can launch ccp4i just fine as a > regular user, but then of course I get the message about the > first time ccp4i has been run and the need to configure it, > which requires administrator level access. > > > Anyone have any ideas? > > > Thanks, > Stuart Endo-Streeter > > Yours sincerely, > > Mark A. White, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, > Manager, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics > X-ray Crystallography Laboratory, > Basic Science Building, Room 6.660 C > University of Texas Medical Branch > Galveston, TX 77555-0647 > Tel. (409) 747-4747 > Cell. (409) 539-9138 > Fax. (409) 747-4745 > mailto://wh...@xray.utmb.edu > http://xray.utmb.edu > http://xray.utmb.edu/~white >
