Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!lth.se!E89HSE@rigel.efd.lth.se
From: e89hse@rigel.efd.lth.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X window problem.
Message-ID: <00937C47.D3DC0340@rigel.efd.lth.se>
Date: 6 Jun 90 03:55:51 GMT
References: <3469@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>,<140009@hpuorfa.HP.COM>
Sender: newsuser@lth.se (LTH network news server)
Reply-To: e89hse@rigel.efd.lth.se
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology,Lund, Sweden
Lines: 30

In article <140009@hpuorfa.HP.COM>, darryl@hpuorfa.HP.COM (Darryl J. Coppenhaver) writes:
>
>> I have finished installing the 7.0 HP-UX, and now I am trying to get X
>> window work. I did exactly the smae as the manual says(use SAM to make
>> a fully loaded kernal with networking by reading in the dfile
>> `/etc/conf/dfile.full.lan', but still I got some problem:
>> 
>> When I type `x11start', it generate a new screen, and then the following
>> message:
>> 
>> waiting for X server to begin accepting connections .........
>> 
>	I don't know if you are up and Xing yet but, the most comman cause
>	for that "waiting for X server...." message is that your "hostname"
>	as defined in /etc/rc is not one of the names found in the /etc/hosts
>	table. If you have not set up the network (which you would not worry
>	about noramlly for a stand alone system) the X window system will
>	not work.
>	  Set up the network using the following steps:
>	  1) edit /etc/rc and modify "SYSNAME=unknown" to some 
>	     real name for your system.
>	  2) edit /etc/hosts and add that new name and the network address
>	     (network address must match that used in /etc/netlinkrc)

 I had the same problem, and the only thing I had to do was to set DIPLAY to
LOCAL:0.0:

 setenv DISPLAY local:0.0

 Henrik Sandell