Telnet escape character and error display

[Lexxx]

Hi Guys, I was tryin to telnet one of our tru64 server and it took like sleeping aroung 1-3mins before telnet can be established and once connected I saw error display comming out of the screen. Can you help me what is causing this time consuming telnet and this display error?
Regards.

telnet 172.26.20.10
Trying...
Connected to 172.26.20.10.
Escape character is '^]'.
Local flow control on
Telnet TERMINAL-SPEED option ON


Digital UNIX (inivr1) (ttyp1)

login: root
Password:
Last login: Sun Sep 16 14:38:54 from inivr2

Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229); Mon Feb 9 11:50:01 MET 2004



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Error: Can't open display:
root@inivr1>

[Lexxx]

Additional Info....
is there a configuration for this to check as well. thanks

[Steven Schweda]

The usual reason for such delays is a DNS
problem, where address-to-name look-ups fail.

> Error: Can't open display:

Look at your shell start-up script(s)
(.login, .profile, and/or whatever) to see
which command is actually failing here.
(This could also be DNS-related, but it's
hard to say much with no actual information.)

[Pieter 't Hart]

the "Can't open display" message coms from the unix-hosts wich tries to open a (X-)terminal window on your workstations xserver.
wich could mean
- either your workstation isn't running an x-server
- or the unix-host cannot find this (name resolution issue ).
- or there may be an entry in the host-file and the entry of this workstation do not match.
- Or your local xserver does not accept these connections (try "xhosts +" to temporarily allow any host to open a window).
- as in the previous post a command in the loginscript prevents is faulty or cannot execute correctly.

Pieter

[Pieter 't Hart]

there may be a $HOME/.dt/errorlog file wich provides information

[Steven Schweda]

> wich could mean
> [...]

Or the DISPLAY variable is set to some
nonsense, or not set at all, or any number of
other things. "Can't open display:" invites
the obvious question, "Which display?"