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From: cross@eng.umd.edu (Chris P. Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: Strange problem, anyone help?
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.220018.9263@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 91 22:00:18 GMT
Reply-To: cross@eng.umd.edu (Chris P. Ross)
Organization: College of Engineering, Maryversity of Uniland, College Park
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	I recently compiled Andrew pl10 for my sparc's running SunOS 4.1.
And, to my delight, it seems to work.  I should say, the non X-window
parts seem to work just fine.  (This is a new thing.  This is the first
patch that would work on our sparcs so far, or at least that I've done.)
But, any program that tries to create an X window will give the following:

Starting help (Version 7.2, ATK 17.0); please wait...
Could not open the display; this program will not run without a window system.
help: failed to create new window; exiting.
Exit 1

  Does anyone know what would cause this?  We are using X authority here,
and I was running as myself, so it's not the simple problem of not being
able to write on the display.  I even tried xhost +'ing, but still the
same problem.  Does anyone have any idea why this would happen?

  Side note:  I compiled for our sun3's at the same time, with the same
source, and they work fine.

  Thanks...
   
                                    - Chris

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