From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:17:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201004262317.32393.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD5D47E.2090708@gmail.com>
On Monday 26 April 2010 19:59:26 Dale wrote:
> walt wrote:
> > On 04/25/2010 09:25 PM, Dale wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I have had elogv and elogviewer installed for a while. I only use it
> >> on occasion but when I tried to use it the other day I get this
> >> little error message:
> >>
> >> root@smoker / # elogviewer
> >> No protocol specified
> >> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57:
> >> GtkWarning: could not open display
> >
> > Do you have the DISPLAY variable set properly in root's environment?
>
> Apparently something got changed with a update. I tried to run hp-setup
> a bit ago and it failed too. It gave this error:
>
> No protocol specified
> hp-setup: cannot connect to X server :0.0
>
> I'm running this in a Konsole, part of KDE, so just where would I set
> this up? I don't usually have to mess with it and it "just works". I'm
> on KDE 4.4.2. Maybe this is a "feature" of KDE4 until it gets
> "fixed". ;-)
The X server is running at Dale and you are trying to connect to it as root.
It (correctly) disapproves of this and is telling you so, while still
remaining polite.
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-26 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-26 4:25 [gentoo-user] elogviewer and something odd with equery Dale
2010-04-26 16:07 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2010-04-26 17:59 ` Dale
2010-04-26 20:33 ` walt
2010-04-26 20:53 ` Dale
2010-04-26 21:26 ` walt
2010-04-26 21:46 ` Dale
2010-04-26 22:04 ` Alex Schuster
2010-04-26 22:11 ` Dale
2010-04-26 22:42 ` walt
2010-04-26 23:06 ` Dale
2010-07-10 5:20 ` Dale
2010-04-26 22:07 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-04-26 22:58 ` Dale
2010-04-26 21:17 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2010-04-27 15:45 ` Peter Humphrey
2010-04-27 16:05 ` Dale
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