home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!wildcan!sq!lee
- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Problems starting openwin [Re: Missing subject header]
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.035929.21804@sq.sq.com>
- Keywords: X11R5, SunOS 4.1.2
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Sep09.153032.13894@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep13.125450.13140@discus.technion.ac.il>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 03:59:29 GMT
- Lines: 58
-
- Sorry to post this, but I can't send mail to the original poster, the header
- got garbled somewhere.
-
- >|> We have upgraded to SunOs 4.1.2 and X11R5, my problem is that
- >|> I can't start up openwindows any more. When I try to execute
- >|> openwin it complains in the following way, then dies:
- >|>
- >|> Couldn't get base SunWindow
- >|> /usr/openwin/bin/xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to
- >|> connect to X server
-
- Things to check:
-
- If you elected not to install SunView (suntools) support when you installed
- SunOS, you should start xnews with the -nosunview option.
-
- X11R5 should not be involved here.
- Make sure that your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH have $OPENHOME/bin and
- $OPENWINHOME/lib (respectively) before any references to (e.g.) /usr/bin/X11.
-
- If you have a .xserverrc, remove it (or rename it).
- In fact, a good idea is
- cd
- mkdir dots
- mv .[xXous]* dots
- mv NeWS dots/NeWS # if you have a NeWS directory
-
- Then log out altogether, log in again and try "openwin" again.
-
- But the most likely cause is that you need -nosunview.
-
- Some less likely possibilities:
- * you are missing the /dev entry for /dev/fb, /dev/cgfour0 or whatever
- [unlikely as you've been able to start xnews]
-
- * you are missing the /dev entries or kernel support for SunView (/dev/win*)
-
- * you still have an old .xinitrc that is incompatible with OpenWindows 3
-
- * you started xnews as root and there are files in /tmp (e.g. .X11-unix)
- or process (eg. xv_sv_sel) running that you can't overwrite/stop.
-
- * you have DISPLAY set to something other than your_machine:0; unset DISPLAY
- and try again [I have seen this problem!].
-
- * you are running an old copy of the openwin shell script
-
- Note also that you might be missing some error messages; you could do
- openwin 2> /tmp/oops.log
- or (for csh users, I _think_)
- openwin >& /tmp/oops.log
-
- Lee
-
- --
- Liam Quin, lee@sq.com, SoftQuad, Toronto, 416 239-4801; the barefoot programmer
- lq-text (Unix text retrieval package) mailing list: lq-text-request@sq.com
-
-