From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1O6Vjh-0001rD-Kd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:21:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAD40E08E0; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79597E08E0 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi18 with SMTP id 18so739076wwi.40 for ; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=RHHznDQGcwytj94bOEdUSl6siP2xdALUeOuGnplAtfM=; b=WC/4Z6zmQmuB9tzDC8bhGeR/OkPw40/H0lPkDFaxdjATiiG6Y4eSMFCw7xgZN7UWgs JRo2G4nkHlCCqPQy7CzrvejpBvehqWeULu/7nZR4WDHo9HwnG0E7vkTVzlu8E5OnH43R m9TbzkJyHvcIYmjdGBTlz/I2PFV8iV+5EWR+A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=xO3stf43BH/kI9U7zI8CDr93JQWY3QhybjW+Cgr4M262IqhKPaBmEWonG3LKuBlRdx nituvoUH9O/iWncrdc8FtAbp+WTRhxzAM9uE7JR4RJ93AbK3u7ZtpyU94+aSsEPIYC+F 9rkGkjRALkFe7blzMt4L69YyKwZBGFm4nIDLA= Received: by 10.216.178.207 with SMTP id f57mr122305wem.88.1272316848764; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-185-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x1sm1197467wbx.1.2010.04.26.14.20.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:20:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: elogviewer and something odd with equery Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:17:32 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33-zen1; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Dale References: <4BD515B9.1040809@gmail.com> <4BD5D47E.2090708@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4BD5D47E.2090708@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201004262317.32393.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a612769c-1403-454d-b784-2b2b05876456 X-Archives-Hash: 80477614081ef07407f0324a7700889d 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