Re: RedHat 6.1 so far. (fwd)

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@xxxxxxxx>]

Bruce Smith wrote:

in response to my message:
> > Yesterday, I updated RH6.0 on a pentium 166 and had no immediate problems
> > but when I tried to use linuxconf and control-panel, neither would come
> > up. I saved the diagnostic error messages returned if anyone is
> > interested.
>
> That could be the standard error of not setting $DISPLAY correctly,
> and/or not "xhost"ing your display for root after a "su" command.
>
> Please post the error messages and we'll see . . .

See the attachment.

>
> > I have yet to explore the goodies on BSWare6.1.
>
> Don't get too excited, there isn't much there anymore.   :{)

OK, I'll stop holding my breath.

    Best,    Ralph      deal@kzoo.edu

PS let me know if the imbedded formatting controls make the message
appear with 'root' in red.  If not, I'll omit them in the future.
Script started on Thu Oct  7 16:44:40 1999


root [VT-/dev/pts/1] 1 Thu Oct  7 16:44:41  /home/deal/temp

#> linuxconf
Error message from remadmin :Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Error message from remadmin :Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key

Error message from remadmin :
Error message from remadmin :Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
remadmin (GUI frontend) exiting abnormaly


root [VT-/dev/pts/1] 2 Thu Oct  7 16:44:49  /home/deal/temp

#> control-panel
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server

Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key


Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0


root [VT-/dev/pts/1] 3 Thu Oct  7 16:45:02  /home/deal/temp

#> exit
exit

Script done on Thu Oct  7 16:45:15 1999