From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 16:26:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA12207 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12192 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 16:26:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA00273; Tue, 2 Jul 1996 19:31:40 -0400 Message-Id: <199607022331.TAA00273@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Missing File - libc.s0.3.0 - help! To: ajohn@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us (Anil John) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 19:31:39 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (freeq) In-Reply-To: <01BB6784.01B05D20@ppp93.bcpl.lib.md.us> from Anil John at "Jul 1, 96 07:32:10 pm" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anil John wrote... [...deleted...] > > Absolutely right... I was running fvwm from the 2.2 snap CD. I fixed that > (went and got the fvwm from the 2.1R CD), but I still get a message: > > fvwm: can't open display. > > Anil > > Not an error I'd expect. You are running X first, aren't you? The window manager has to be started after the X server, traditionally in the .xsession (if using xdm) or .xinitrc (if using 'startx') file. If that's not the problem, try setting the environment variable DISPLAY explicitly to 'localhost:0'. If that works, we'll find a way around the problem! John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key