Re: [Dmtcp-forum] Starting with TightVNC

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

Oh, and I'm running DMTCP 1.2.0 compiled from source.

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Elliott Slaughter <
ell...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm trying to follow the instructions for running DMTCP with TightVNC from
> http://dmtcp.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dmtcp/trunk/QUICK-START . I am
> running a Ubuntu 10.04 server with tightvnc 1.3.9, blackbox 0.70.1, and
> emacs 23.1.1 installed from the package manager.
>
> I have set up my ~/.vnc/xstartup file to run blackbox and emacs. When I
> start tightvncserver without DMTCP, it works fine, and when I connect I see
> a screen with emacs as expected. But when I run with DMTCP, blackbox and
> emacs fail to connect to the display and I end up with a blank screen when I
> connect with my client.
>
> Here is the error message from ~/.vnc/ubuntu-10:1.log
>
> bt::Display: failed to open display ''
> Display :1 unavailable, simulating -nw
> emacs: standard input is not a tty
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Elliott Slaughter
>
> "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to
> predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
>



-- 
Elliott Slaughter

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict
the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay