Hi Ignacio, If your DISPLAY is not set (echo $DISPLAY nothing comes), you should try setting it. Please set it something like below: export DISPLAY=<ipaddress of your operating sys>:0.0 and try if xterm opens!
Cheers Sumanth On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Ignacio Garita <ignacio.gar...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to complete the openflow tutorial ( > http://www.openflow.org/wk/index.php/OpenFlow_Tutorial). I am running > Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and did the native install instructions on the mininet > page, using git clone. I already have wireshark, pox, and other programs > installed (working succesfully). In the README.md file, I get I am running > Version 2.0.0 of Mininet. > > When I get to a part of the tutorial in which I execute this: > > mininet> xterm h1 h2 h3 > > Xterm windows just don't open or spawn. > > Previously I executed > > >sudo mn --topo single,3 --mac --switch ovsk --controller remote > > and the rest of the instructions. (so the nodes are there). > > When in a normal Ubuntu terminal I type > > xterm > > An xterm window opens, so I think Xserver is running and xterm is working. > It is the "pseudo" xterm used by mininet that seems failing, this on Ubuntu > 12.04 (no virtual machines...). > > I tried this on a previous version of mininet , and the xterm windows did > spawn, but on the newer version, it seems they are not wokring. I tried > this on two different computers running Ubuntu 12.04, to no avail. > > > Thanks, > > > Ignacio Garita > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > openflow-discuss mailing list > openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss > >
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