no protocol specified problem with Fedora 8
Michael D. Setzer II
mikes at kuentos.guam.net
Thu Nov 22 08:37:50 UTC 2007
I've run into a problem when remotely connecting to a test Fedora 8
machine with VNC and trying to run some programs.
>From the menus, it will prompt for the root password, but then nothing
comes up. Running the command from the command line will come up with
the no protocol specified message, or sometimes bring up a text mode
version of the program
Strange thing as an example. gedit will generally work with the logged in
name, but afer doing a su, it will sometimes work, and other times not giving
the no protocol specified, and that it can not open display :79.0
As another issue I've found, is that boincmgr gets and error message when
trying to run on the machine main interface with both user and root id. The
boinc program itself runs fine. The boincmgr can be run from a vnc
connection with no problem. I found this error mentioned in the forums a few
months ago with a beta version of Fedora 8, but no solution. The only
solution was to use a windows machine to manage the fedora 8 connection.
Not sure what the difference is.
I currently have 20 machines in my lab running Fedora 6, and was looking at
upgrading to Fedora 8. The system is fully updated.
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