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ifeatu 09-03-2009 01:48 AM

Xming/ DISPLAY not working!
 
Here is my current setup...I'm on a winxp box right now with xming installed on it and putty installed...

Putty is configured for x11 forwarding on the particular server that I am connecting to

the server itself has a sshd_config file that looks like this:

...
# Accept locale-related environment variables
AcceptEnv LANG LC_CTYPE LC_NUMERIC LC_TIME LC_COLLATE LC_MONETARY LC_MESSAGES
AcceptEnv LC_PAPER LC_NAME LC_ADDRESS LC_TELEPHONE LC_MEASUREMENT
AcceptEnv LC_IDENTIFICATION LC_ALL
#AllowTcpForwarding yes
#GatewayPorts no
X11Forwarding yes
#X11Forwarding yes
X11DisplayOffset 10
X11UseLocalhost yes
#PrintMotd yes
#PrintLastLog yes
#TCPKeepAlive yes
#UseLogin no
#UsePrivilegeSeparation yes
...


...and a display variable that looks like this:

[root@blah]# echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0

but when I try to run anything it keeps saying display not found (or in the case of firefox no error at all)

[root@blah]# firefox
[root@blah]#

[root@blah]# startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2938


X Window System Version 1.3.0
Release Date: 19 April 2007
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3
Build Operating System: Fedora 8 Red Hat, Inc.
Current Operating System: Linux blah.2.6.26.8-57.fc8 #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 19:19:45 EST 2008 i686
Build Date: 24 July 2008
Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-47.fc8
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Sep 2 23:51:26 2009
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) Failed to load module "intel" (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found



Can someone please help!

linuxlover.chaitanya 09-03-2009 01:53 AM

Well localhost display says that it will run all the applications on localhost i.e the server where ssh is running. And if the system is running in runlevel 3 then it will not give you the display or will run firefox. You will need the server to be running X.

ifeatu 09-03-2009 09:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxlover.chaitanya (Post 3667820)
Well localhost display says that it will run all the applications on localhost i.e the server where ssh is running. And if the system is running in runlevel 3 then it will not give you the display or will run firefox. You will need the server to be running X.

Why would I need x running on the server if I have xming running on the windows client from which I am connecting...I am trying to export the display over ssh...

linuxlover.chaitanya 09-04-2009 12:16 AM

But the display still shows localhost. How can it display on localhost if there is no X running?


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