jkolata wrote: > I did a fink selfupdate last week and I haven't been able to get X11 > to run with > Terminal since then. Here is the message: > > xhost: unable to open display ":0" > xhost: unable to open display ":0" > > [kolata:~] jkolata1% xterm > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0 > [kolata:~] jkolata1% > > As far as I can tell, the update didn't replace the X11 package. Our updates don't mess with the system's stuff, which is what X11 is on Leopard. We wouldn't be replacing anything. > I > had a similar > problem last September which was fixed by downloading Xquartz 2.3.1. > This is still the X11 package I am using. Here is the info: > > XQuartz 2.3.1 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple17) > > I am running Xcode 3.1, and here is the version info from fink: > > Package manager version: 0.28.7 > Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Wed Apr 15 09:45:37 2009, 10.5, > i386 > > Should I be running a different version of Xquartz? I notice that > version 2.3.2.1 has been released. Should I also download a new > version of Xcode at the same time? > > James Kolata > > I can't imagine that a selfupdate did anything to break your X11 setup; you could check, though, by temporarily turning off running Fink's setup, e.g. by commenting out the line where /sw/bin/init.sh is sourced in your .profile (I have no idea how your system is configured, so do whatever is appropriate) and then start a new Terminal.app window. If you're able to run xterm from that Fink could be involved.
Are you setting DISPLAY yourself somewhere in a script? If so, don't do that--it doesn't work properly on Leopard. Although I got a slightly different error message: $ export DISPLAY=:0 $ xterm Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :0 -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
