Startx for AIX 4.1... I cant seem to get it up :) ..... hehehe

[mckarl]

I cant access the startx session from my terminal. tells me my screen display, 123123123:0 then says please wait- starting your session. <br>
But it lies and makes me wait ages ... until i realize it has cut out, and has returnet me to my prompt... ARGH!<br>
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it is an administrative job?? or am i just to brain dead to work it out ?<br>
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Karl.<br>
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[MikeLacey]

Could you check the setting of your DISPLAY variable? You might have just written it wrongly in your post but it should have three dots in it - like this "172.31.30.69:0".<br>
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On Unix and running the Korn or Borne shells you have to set your environment variables and mark then as visible to child processes - export them.<br>
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Using the Korn shell (ksh) you would say<br>
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"export DISPLAY=172.31.30.69:0"<br>
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and you can try that with later versions of the Borne shell (sh) but this will work with the earlier versions<br>
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"DISPLAY=172.31.30.69:0; export DISPLAY"<br>
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Make sure you've executed this command before you try and start X (including the export bit if you need to do it separately)<br>
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Regards<br>
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Mike<br>
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Mike_Lacey@Cargill.Com<br>