RE: Unable to run kde or gnome

["Martin, Larry D" <LDMartin@co.pg.md.us>]

Thanks to all.  I have VNCSERVER working.  Now to see what productive things we might be able to do.

Thanks,    ...........Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Philipp Kern [mailto:pkern@debian.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 10:39 AM
To: Martin, Larry D
Cc: debian-s390@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Unable to run kde or gnome

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 10:08:18AM -0500, Martin, Larry D wrote:
> Any idea why startx will not run.  If I run it as root I get all the 
> messages I posted earlier and if I run it as a user I get that I am not authorized.
> 
> When I type gdm3 all I get is repeated messages about the display 
> running for 0.2nnnnnnn seconds and have to <break> to get out of the loop.

As I said it's not supported. I don't know what else to tell you. There's nothing startx could draw a display on. gdm/xdm/kdm needs an xdmcp configuration before they can be used. Xnest seems indeed one way to go.
Another one is vncserver.

But I already said all of that (granted, except Xnest, thanks for the hint.)

Try startx on any x86 Linux box. It might start an X session on VT7 if you're root, but not in your Putty.

(That question is not s390-related, so debian-user@lists.debian.org might be a better fit for support.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern


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