I get the dumb a** of the week award...I was still logged on as myself, not as
root. So much for a good night sleep! Thanks all who helped.
Dave
On Thursday 09 May 2002 14:17, you wrote:
> David Meyer wrote:
> > OK...I'm stuck. I can't get past the following when trying to install
> > Netscape. Can't figure out what is going wrong as I've not run into this
> > before:
> >
> > david@dilbert:~> su
> > Password:
> > dilbert:/home/david # cd /tmp/netscape-installer
> > dilbert:/tmp/netscape-installer # ./netscape-installer
> > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> > Xlib: No protocol specified
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave
> >
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> > David R. Meyer
> > President
> > CRB Technologies, Inc.
> > 813.651.4933 (ph)
> > 813.389.4529 (mobile)
> > dmeyer@crbtechnologies.com
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>
> With SuSE, no user other than the one logged on, has access to the X
> session, not even root. To alleviate this, you need to do the following:
>
> [gnorb@geex gnorb]$ xhost + localhost
> localhost added to control list
> [gnorb@geex gnorb]$ su
> password:
> [root@geex /home/gnorb]# ./netscape-installer
>
> Have fun! :-)
>
> Gnorb
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