Solaris unable to open display ':1'

Marshall,Bradley bradley.marshall "at" siemens.com
Mon Dec 1 19:08:00 2003


Hi All
Would someone be able to help me. This topic is discussed thousands of times
in the forum, but I have not seen an answer to the "grey screen cant open
display problem" I get when start the vncserver.

Your help will be appreciated.

thanks
brad

>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Marshall,Bradley  
> Sent:	Thursday, November 27, 2003 5:31 PM
> To:	'vnc-list "at" realvnc.com'
> Subject:	unable to open display ':1'
> 
> HI
> I have seen many messages on this topic for Solaris 6 but not a good
> solution. In my starter log I get the messages.
> 
> 27/11/03 16:48:13 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
> 27/11/03 16:48:13   URL http://phy-qas:5801
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ':1'
> twm:  unable to open display ":1"
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: :1
> 
> I tried a few different DISPLAY commands but the message still occurs.
> Your help will be appreciated.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Brad Marshall