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Date:      Tue, 2 Apr 2002 19:33:04 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Walter Hop <walter@binity.com>
Cc:        <chip.wiegand@simrad.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: star office won't install - X related problem
Message-ID:  <20020402193113.Q95807-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.43.0204022343160.67855-100000@surreal.nl>

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On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Walter Hop wrote:

> [in reply to chip.wiegand@simrad.com <chip.wiegand@simrad.com>, 02/04/02]
>
> > glib version: 2.1.2
> > _X11TransSocketUnixConnect: Can't connect: Error = 2          (repeated 6
> > times)
> > ./so-5_2-ga-bin-linux-en.bin : cannot connect to X server 0:0
>
> Are you executing the installer from within root's X session?
>
> (If you are in X as an ordinary user but are using `su', try to really
> startup/login to X as root instead of su'ing)

Or the simpler 'DISPLAY=:0; export TERM' if you are su'ing to root.
This way you don't have close your session to install SO


				Fer


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