Hello,

I am having trouble with a new SuSE 9.1 install.

I am familure with xhost and xauth for use with remote display.
I am getting errors from my local host and remote machines when I try to export my DISPLAY.

Here is what I am doing.

Local host: ifconfig shows local host is 10.170.8.1
xhost +
ssh -l system 10.170.8.2
export DISPLAY=10.170.8.1:0
xclock
Error: Can't open display: 10.170.8.1:0

even when I just go to root on localhost, the only way it works is when I
export DISPLAY=:0
export DISPLAY=10.170.8.1:0 gets error.

Please help!
Thank you!
Brian

check /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager

find:
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="no"

and change to:
DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN="yes"

Although this was a good tip, this did not fix my issue. I did change this parameter and even rebooted just in case, still the same issue.
Are there any logs I could look at to see if I get a better idea of what is blocking me from exporting my DISPLAY?
Thanks again,
Brian

Do you have SUSEFIREWALL2 running ?

if yes:
Probably you should check "/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2"
FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="yes"
to
FW_PROTECT_FROM_INTERNAL="no"

or modify
FW_SERVICES_INT_XXX
to allow X11

It still is not working.
If X11 is listening shouldn't netstat -peat show it?
This is my netstat -peat

Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State User Inode PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:5801 *:* LISTEN root 4519 2838/xinetd
tcp 0 0 *:5901 *:* LISTEN root 4518 2838/xinetd
tcp 0 0 *:sunrpc *:* LISTEN root 2494 1640/portmap
tcp 0 0 *:ipp *:* LISTEN root 4532 2488/cupsd
tcp 0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN root 4042 2621/master
tcp 0 0 *:ssh *:* LISTEN root 3110 2058/sshd
tcp 0 0 localhost:smtp *:* LISTEN root 4043 2621/master

Ok! Finally figured it out.
All I did was go into Yast and it said my monitor wasn't setup. It was setup during install as a VESA basic monitor.
I set it up to my monitor's specs and restarted X and it works fine.

Does anyone know why it didn't find the montior during setup of 9.1 (8.2 found it fine before).
Also, why would that matter, as long as it had a valid display, it at least still work, right?

Thanks for all of your assistance, keep up the good work!!!
Brian

Hi,

I seem to have the same problem, however, the hints supplied didn't work for me. I'm still trying to figure it out, but I learned a couple of lessons along the way. Note: I am running gdm and gnome, which is not the default for Suse.

1) The graphical yast2 does not have an option for shutting down the firewall completely. Switch to console mode and try yast2 there. All the sudden "disable firewall" was there again
2) netstat -peat really shows the listening X server, you should see a line like the following:
tcp 0 0 *:6000 *:* LISTEN root 9921 4576/X
3) setting DISPLAYMANAGER_XSERVER_TCP_PORT_6000_OPEN=yes didn't have any effect for me, i.e. the open port did not show up with netstat.
4) here's a workaround if you need to get up a display for your favourite headless server:
- go to console mode
- log in as root
- execute "init 3"
- log out and in as user
- execute "startx gnome"

Cheers!

Andy