Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!erde!venus!hmayer From: hmayer@venus.darmstadt.gmd.de (Hans J. Mayer) Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look Subject: Re: How to avoid the cannot open display problem Message-ID: <4921@darmstadt.gmd.de> Date: 28 Jun 91 07:30:26 GMT Article-I.D.: darmstad.4921 References: Sender: news@darmstadt.gmd.de Reply-To: mayer@gmdzi.gmd.de Organization: German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) Lines: 28 In article , uunet!uunet!fmiapd!saturn!jtk@Unify.Com writes: |> Hi, I not a frequent openwindow user, but I have the openning display |> problem. I don't have problem to run it but if I don't logout of the |> openwindow environment and coming back next day I will get the |> XView Error: Cannot open display on window server: :0 (server package) |> message when I try to open any window. |> |> Most our users have this problem too. I am running Sun4/110 with OS 4.1 |> Openwindow 2.0. The Openwindow is loaded on one of network file server. |> |> Is any suggestion? Thanks!!! |> |> Jeff Ku |> jtk@fmiapd.fai.com First a disclaimer: I don't run Openwindows so I might not know what I'm talking about :-) X (and that is - Openwindows) use Unix domain sockets for interprocess communication. These sockets are established in /tmp (/tmp/.X11-unix in my case). Some system administrators run daily (better: nightly :-) scripts that clean up /tmp. And that's it. Next morning you came back and your ipc socket is gone. -- Hans J. Mayer, hmayer@venus.darmstadt.gmd.de (or mayer@gmdzi.gmd.de) German National Research Center for Computer Science (GMD) "Hacking is an art, but most programmers are butchers, not artists." Marshall T. Rose