Re: Running GNORPM as root

[Ronald de Man <deman win tue nl>]

On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 06:39:56PM -0400, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 06:51:35PM +0200, Ronald de Man wrote:
> 
> > Like Tom Gilbert and others have noted, most probably your problem
> > is that either root's DISPLAY variable is not set correctly (it
> > should be set to :0), or your Xserver is refusing connections from
> > localhost. So as rebecca, try
> > 
> > $ xhost +localhost
> > 
> > and as root do
> > 
> > $ setenv DISPLAY :0
> > 
> > if you use csh/tcsh, or
> > 
> > $ DISPLAY=:0
> > 
> > if you use bash. Now try gnorpm (or for that matter, any other program
> > that uses X, such as glint, or netscape, or xv... I suppose those
> > have stopped working too as root).
> 
> Actually gtop and gnorpm were the only ones that appeared to have the esd
> interferance pattern.  I didn't run strace on gtop but I expect that was it for
> that one, too.

Oh? Esd did that? Weird...

And I thought you had somewhere said that glint was giving trouble
as well, and glint can't possibly have to do with esd. But now I
can't find that quote of yours about glint, so I either deleted
that mail, or I just imagined I'd read it. (Maybe you wrote gtop,
and I read it as glint.. argh)

> 
> I started esd and xv worked okay fine but gtop gave me the broken pipe signal.
> 
> With esd killed, no problems with either gnorpm or gtop.
> 
> 
> > 
> > I admit that it is not very elegant for GTK to dump core whenever a
> > connection to the Xserver is refused.
> 
> 
> More a esd socket conflict problem, I think.

Well, I guess it doesn't relate to your problem, but GTK does dump
core when the Xserver refuses connection (xhost -localhost ; su ; ee
and core dump).

> 
> This has been happening for the last couple of different gtk's.

I don't seem to have these problems with esd.

> 
> Also, I've had more problems with Enlightenment with panel applets crashing than in icewm, but I'll see if that goes away with the newest gtk.

I'm still using icewm, and not having crashing applets these days.

> 
> Icewm seems to have regained its problem with same-gnome marbles/tokens not
> going away with a single click on the spinning units, but otherwise is okay
> fine.

Ah, I remember that problem from a while back. But for me it is currently
working. Does clicking any two out of three buttons still help?

Ronald