how to run SAM

[Ben Li]

I login as my own user ID and use su to change to root. Then run SAM, it comes with
following error message:
#sam
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
...

It seems I need to setup DISPLAY viriable. Can any one tell me how to solve the problem?

Thanks

[CHRIS_ANORUO]

You can do 2 things
a: Do su - root
b: In your .dtprofile, remove the hash(#) before DTSOURCEPROFILE=true

[Kofi ARTHIABAH]

If you su to root, you loose your setting of the DISPLAY variable... and you should be able to run the non-x version of SAM- it appears that the DISPLAY variable is forced set by the root's .profile?

Anyways, what you can do is

export DISPLAY= ; sam

this should start the terminal version of SAM.

If you need to start the X version of SAM, you would need to set the DISPLAY variable to the host running the X server.. ie your PC.

[Brian M. Fisher]

What a lousy day typing I am having. Try:

xhost + `hostname`

Brian
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[Brian M. Fisher · Accepted solution]

Before you do your su to root, type xhost `hostname` to allow X to be displayed by a different user.

Brian
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