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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] No GNOME after upgrade
From:       Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon () decoulon ! ch>
Date:       2010-09-17 16:44:50
Message-ID: 201009171844.50566.tcoulon () decoulon ! ch
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On Friday 17 September 2010, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Used zypper dup to move from 11.1 to 11.3, and now my desktop will no
> longer display. Well, the background displays OK, but there is no panel
> and right click on the desktop does not work either.
>
> When I remotely log into the machine and set $DISPLAY to :0.0 and then
> try to start xlock for example I get the following:
>
> -> xclock
> No protocol specified
> Error: Can't open display: :0.0
>
> Starting a GNOME app such as just results in the following:
>
> -> gnome-terminal
> No protocol specified
> Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
>
> -> echo $DISPLAY
>
> :0.0
>
> Any ideas what's going on here and how to fix it?

Looks to me as the X settings have been screwed up and has to be fixed.

Thierry



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