On Wednesday 26 January 2005 09:14, blabla wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* blabla <blabla1@cwazy.co.uk> [01-25-05 17:07]:
So here is the result of my labours as root after having installed the Suse 9.2 rpm as suggested by Patrick:
dicker:/opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin # ./thunderbird.sh DISPLAY empty or unusable DISPLAY=:0.0 dicker:/opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin #
Unfortunately I got no further...
and you will not. As has been explained several times here, root does not have access to the display when you have logged on as <user>. We can see that you are trying to initiate thunderbird as root by the command line prompt '#'.
Try the above as <user> and, perhaps, you may succeed.
It can be done also as root, but you must give root permission first, via sudo or 'sux', super-user w/X access. But, you were advised to utilize rpm, not work as root. Your first sentence above is somewhat mis-leading in that aspect.
No, I did the rpm installation - only thing is it doesn't start so that is why I tried as root from the shell. Here is the result as user:
ingo@dicker:/opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin> ./thunderbird.sh Segmentation fault ingo@dicker:/opt/MozillaThunderbird/bin>
Could it be I got a faulty rpm?
Don't go about running graphical mail clients as root, though, will you? Can't be a good thing ... Best Fergus
Thanks
Ingo
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