kam@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Keith Marchington) (05/26/90)
/ hpcvlx:comp.sys.hp / frankhua@quiche (Frank Xiaojun HUANG) / 2:06 pm May 24, 1990 / > I have finished installing the 7.0 HP-UX, and now I am trying to get X > window work. I did exactly the smae as the manual says(use SAM to make > a fully loaded kernal with networking by reading in the dfile > `/etc/conf/dfile.full.lan', but still I got some problem: > > When I type `x11start', it generate a new screen, and then the following > message: > > waiting for X server to begin accepting connections ......... > > and then nothing happens(keeps printing out the dots). > > Can anyone give me some suggestions to solve this problem? > > Thanks. > > p.s. This is a local system and is not connected to any computer Net. > ---------- > As of 7.0, you will need to set the DISPLAY environment variable if you do not have an /etc/hosts file. This is because some logic was added to the X Library to attempt to use unix domain sockets if the connection is local. I believe this is the source of your problem. Just do one of the following before starting the 'x11start' program: for csh: setenv DISPLAY local:0 for sh/ksh DISPLAy=local:0 export DISPLAY Hope this works. Keith Marchington Hewlett-Packard Corvallis, Oregon
darryl@hpuorfa.HP.COM (Darryl J. Coppenhaver) (06/05/90)
> I have finished installing the 7.0 HP-UX, and now I am trying to get X > window work. I did exactly the smae as the manual says(use SAM to make > a fully loaded kernal with networking by reading in the dfile > `/etc/conf/dfile.full.lan', but still I got some problem: > > When I type `x11start', it generate a new screen, and then the following > message: > > waiting for X server to begin accepting connections ......... > > and then nothing happens(keeps printing out the dots). > > Can anyone give me some suggestions to solve this problem? > > Thanks. > > p.s. This is a local system and is not connected to any computer Net. > ---------- > I don't know if you are up and Xing yet but, the most comman cause for that "waiting for X server...." message is that your "hostname" as defined in /etc/rc is not one of the names found in the /etc/hosts table. If you have not set up the network (which you would not worry about noramlly for a stand alone system) the X window system will not work. Set up the network using the following steps: 1) edit /etc/rc and modify "SYSNAME=unknown" to some real name for your system. 2) edit /etc/hosts and add that new name and the network address (network address must match that used in /etc/netlinkrc) Good luck, darryl@hpuorfa
e89hse@rigel.efd.lth.se (06/06/90)
In article <140009@hpuorfa.HP.COM>, darryl@hpuorfa.HP.COM (Darryl J. Coppenhaver) writes: > >> I have finished installing the 7.0 HP-UX, and now I am trying to get X >> window work. I did exactly the smae as the manual says(use SAM to make >> a fully loaded kernal with networking by reading in the dfile >> `/etc/conf/dfile.full.lan', but still I got some problem: >> >> When I type `x11start', it generate a new screen, and then the following >> message: >> >> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections ......... >> > I don't know if you are up and Xing yet but, the most comman cause > for that "waiting for X server...." message is that your "hostname" > as defined in /etc/rc is not one of the names found in the /etc/hosts > table. If you have not set up the network (which you would not worry > about noramlly for a stand alone system) the X window system will > not work. > Set up the network using the following steps: > 1) edit /etc/rc and modify "SYSNAME=unknown" to some > real name for your system. > 2) edit /etc/hosts and add that new name and the network address > (network address must match that used in /etc/netlinkrc) I had the same problem, and the only thing I had to do was to set DIPLAY to LOCAL:0.0: setenv DISPLAY local:0.0 Henrik Sandell