[wplug] RH7.3 GUI login problem

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at cmu.edu
Mon Jun 16 20:58:31 EDT 2003


On Monday 16 June 2003 20:02, Frank W. Holden Jr. wrote:
<snip>
> I was thinking about the .Xauthority file not being correct, but it
> looks OK... Now under the .xsession-errors I get this:
>
> xsetroot:  unable to open display 'mach1:0.0='
> xmodmap:  unable to open display 'mach1:0.0='
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xmbind:  Can't open display
>
> Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: mach1:0.0=

Can it be as simple as an incorrectly set environment variable? If you 
still haven't done so, change the default runlevel from 5 to 3 (in 
/etc/inittab) and then try starting X from the console:

$ export DISPLAY=":0.0"
$ startx

Any difference?

-A
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