Re: [orca-list] Couldn't start orca

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

Hi:

What are the results when you do the following commands?

Ctrl+Alt+F1 (takes you to a virtual console where you need to login)
export DISPLAY=:0
xdpyinfo

In addition, do you have to use startx, or can you log in via the normal
GDM way?

Will

On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 20:51 +0800, coscell mail batol net wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I found another message. I'm sure that is critical:
> ** (gnome-panel:18613): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with
> GDM: no such file or directory
> 
> Please help me to solve this problem. Thank you very much!
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Willie Walker wrote:
> 
> > If you have access at the console level, you might try this after you've
> > started the X session:
> >
> > Ctrl+Alt+F1 (takes you to a virtual console where you need to login)
> > export DISPLAY=:0
> > xdpyinfo
> >
> > If you get errors from xdpyinfo, then the problem is that the DISPLAY
> > cannot be reached.  I'm not sure how to resolve this.  Can you do
> > something in a different way besides startx?
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 23:08 +0800, coscell mail batol net wrote:
> > > For example: I pressed alt+f1, left, up, enter, enter,
> > > I returned to console mode.
> > >
> > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Willie Walker wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'm confused.  :-(  If you cannot test anything without Orca, how do you
> > > > know the GNOME environment is working?
> > > >
> > > > Will
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 21:39 +0800, coscell mail batol net wrote:
> > > > > Without orca I couldn't test any thing. But I can operate gnome
> > > > > enviromnent properly.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Willie Walker wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > This usually means that the Orca process cannot get to the X Window
> > > > > > System server.  Can you run any other GUI app (e.g., gcalctool) from the
> > > > > > same shell where Orca is failing to start?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 11:39 +0800, coscell mail batol net wrote:
> > > > > > > Hello
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I've installed and setup orca svn 2550 properly.
> > > > > > > But I couldn't start it while startx. I found the following messages:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Cannot start Orca because it cannot connect
> > > > > > > to the Desktop.  Please make sure the DISPLAY
> > > > > > > environment variable has been set.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Why and how to fix it?
> > > > > > > Thank you!
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