From: Moore, Paul
Looks like it thinks it's being asked to open a display on a machine called "oem". That's very weird, as my machine isn't called "oem". OK, that's got me a lot further, I'll look into this. I guess I'm looking for something in the X server on my PC which is sending the wrong machine name, or some other similar strangeness.
I'll see what I can find out.
Oh, poo. It looks like it may be related to DNS. $ traceroute ukdcw5163 traceroute to ukdcw5163.uk.int.atosorigin.com (172.16.246.191), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 oem (172.16.246.191) 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms That's where the "oem" comes from. I can work around this temporarily by putting my PC name into the Linux box's /etc/hosts file, which fixes the resolution, but as my PC is on DHCP, that only works until I get a new IP address assigned :-( And past experience indicates that getting our network people to fix the DNS is not a job for the faint hearted, or for people who need it to actually happen :-( Ultimately, I guess this is something I have to get resolved internally, but can anyone suggest any other possible workarounds for a severely broken DNS? Thanks, Paul.