Eric, 

I'll have to look at the installed software.  I didn't explicitly install the X 
runtime.  And I don't remember removing it. 

And no, xfs isn't started at any run-level.  


Dave 






Dave Stuart
Prin. Info. Systems Support Analyst
County of Ventura, CA
805-662-6731
[email protected]>>> "Eric Chevalier" <[email protected]> 1/6/2011 
11:39 AM >>>
On 1/6/2011 12:59 PM, David Stuart wrote:
> All,
>
> <you-idiot>
>
> I just saw something in the cookbook.  I'll bet my 'problem' is the 
> difference between running with run level 3 and run level 5...
>
> Thanks anyway, for all your ideas
>
> </you-idiot>
>
>
> Dave
>
> P.S. Yes, I can call myself that.

Dave,

Don't be so hard on yourself so quickly!

I just recently converted a RHEL 4 system running on an x86 box from run
level 5 to run level 3. After the change I can still connect via "ssh -X
..." and run X applications on the Linux box just fine. (I'm using Xming
on a Windows 7 box to connect to the Linux system.)

I don't have any experience with SLES11, but on the RHEL box the big
difference between the two run levels is that level 5 starts a local X
server on the Linux box while level 3 does not. You shouldn't need an X
server running on your SLES system in order to run X apps on that box,
the X server needs to run on your remote workstation of course.

You might want to check to see if level 3 starts the font server (xfs);
your remote workstation might be expecting to find it. Also, permit me a
dumb question: when you installed SLES11, did you install the X runtime
libraries that your apps are going to require?

Eric

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