289242 - Installer fails to connect to X server.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[William Bishop]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705)
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/sysreq.html

OS: SuSE 9.0; glibc 2.3.2-88; gtk 1.2.10-710; XFree86 4.3.0; libstdc++ 3.3.1.
Downloaded suite to dir /usr/local/mozilla.x; SUed as root.  After untarring, 
entering './mozilla-installer' results in the following messages:
Xlib:Connection to ":0.0" refused by server.
Xlib:No protocol specified
Gtk-Warning**:cannot open display ":0.0" 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Install SuSE 9.0
2.  SU to root
3.  Create directory /usr/local/mozilla (or mozilla.x)
4.  Download Mozilla Suite to new directory.
5.  Untar package.
6.  Enter './mozilla-installer'
7.  Read error messages.

Actual Results:  
Same as reporte above

Expected Results:  
I had expected the Mozilla Suite to have been installed.

Comment 1

[Andrew Schultz]

can you run any X apps after su to root?  like xclock?

Comment 2

[William Bishop]

[e-mail] was kind enough to point out the error of my ways...this 
was not a bug after all...merely a loose nut on the keyboard.