Bug 115634 - Cannot start Firefox Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Summary: Cannot start Firefox Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114350
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 4 Plus
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Blocker
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Reported: 2005-09-07 16:14 UTC by Ladislav Michnovic
Modified: 2005-09-07 17:41 UTC (History)
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strace output (156.36 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-09-07 16:14 UTC, Ladislav Michnovic 		Details
correct strace output (60.63 KB, application/octet-stream)
2005-09-07 17:36 UTC, Ladislav Michnovic 		Details
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Description Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-07 16:14:13 UTC 
I used update instead of install, but this is probably not important, from beta
3 to beta 4 plus and when I run Firefox it writes:
DISPLAY empty or unusable. 
DISPLAY=:0.0
After exporting DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 it writes:
 Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:. 
Other aplications like Mozilla, OOo,... are without problems.
Attaching strace.
Comment 1 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-07 16:14:48 UTC 
Created attachment 49086 [details]
strace output
Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2005-09-07 17:19:07 UTC 
Well what is the value of DISPLAY in your environment?  Are you starting firefox
from the command line?
Comment 3 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-07 17:35:07 UTC 
As I wrote:
echo $DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0

I was wondering that Firefox doesn't starts, so I ran it from commandline and it
wrote to xterm:
DISPLAY empty or unusable. 
DISPLAY=:0.0
This is default also in previous betas. Exporting DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 was
probably wrong, so "Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:" is IMHO correct
behavior. So the attached strace is probalbly useless, I'll attach a new one.
Comment 4 Ladislav Michnovic 2005-09-07 17:36:55 UTC 
Created attachment 49098 [details]
correct strace output

Ignore the first one.
Comment 5 Wolfgang Rosenauer 2005-09-07 17:41:45 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114350 ***