Re: xterm won't start on AMD K6 with stock 2.6.22-1-486 kernel

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 1 Sep 2007, Paul Scott wrote:

> Takehiko Abe wrote:
> > Paul Scott wrote:
> >
> > > Here's the end of the strace.  It doesn't tell me anything we don't
> > > already know. Maybe someone else will see more:
> >
> > So what do you already know? For instance, this
> >
> > > [...]
> > > write(2, "xterm Xt error: Can\'t open displ"...,
> > > [...]
> >
> > looks different from the previous pty error. Have you fixed that?
> I don't know enough to know why it should have changed with all stock updates 
> or enough to fix it at this point.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul

write(2, "xterm:  DISPLAY is not set\n", 27xterm:  DISPLAY is not set
) = 27

that could be a problem.. are you doing this from the console or from a 
ssh session?

what does echo $DISPLAY tell you?

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