RE: [CSCMail-Users] Problems Installing

[Richard P. <ao...@ds...>]

Daniel, thanks for this, and you to Gavin. You guys were both right. I
was trying to run it outside the GUI. It now runs fine within terminal
mode for a while, but towards the end I get the following messages:

Sh: CD/root/cscmailbuild/DBD-CSV-0.1027: no such file or directory
Sh: CD/root/cscmailbuild/HTMLParser-3.25: no such file or directory
Sh: CD/root/cscmailbuild/URI-1.17: no such file or directory
Sh: CD/root/cscmailbuild/IO-stringy-1.210: no such file or directory

I had assumed CSCMailInstaller would create any directories it needed.
Is it that I need to manually create these first, or is it failing to
find some files do you think?

Thanks again for your help.

Richard


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Schregenberger [mailto:np...@gm...] 
> Sent: 06 March 2003 17:04
> To: Richard Poynder
> Cc: Mailinglist: CSCMail
> Subject: Re: [CSCMail-Users] Problems Installing
> 
> 
> Richard Poynder wrote:
> 
> > I've been trying to install CSCMail with the CSCMailInstaller.pl 
> > option, but I get the error message: Gtk warning: cannot 
> open display: 
> > at (eval) line 1.
> > 
> > Can anyone help?
> 
> Are you running the installer as root? If yes, how did you 
> login? I mean: does X run under user root as well? If not 
> this might be the problem: you are not allowed to use another 
> users X-Server, not even if you're root. There is a way to 
> change that (temporarily, everthing else wouldn't make sense 
> and was a security issue), but the easy way is to start X as 
> root or start a second X for root.
> 
> -- Daniel


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> I've been trying to install CSCMail with the CSCMailInstaller.pl 
> option, but I get the error message: Gtk warning: cannot open display:

> at (eval) line 1.

You usually get the "cannot open display" error when you're not running
a GUI, or are running a shell session that doesn't have X forwarding.
The best way to check is to see what the $DISPLAY environment variable
contains. For example, when I open a terminal and do

	$ echo $DISPLAY

If it's empty, then that's the problem.

HTH,

Gavin.

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