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Cannot access non-graphical X server

AugustWest
AugustWest over 10 years ago

I am trying to run 'virutoso -nograph' and I get the following errors:

Code:

Trying another display...
*WARNING* Could not open display hostname:89.  If no X server is running for this display,
*WARNING* remove the file /tmp/.X11-unix/X89: owner user, last modified Mon Nov  3 10:14:00 2014

*WARNING* Giving up after trying 10 displays.
*WARNING* Unable to connect to a non-graphical X Window Display server.
*WARNING* Try using the -vncTenbase option or the CDS_XVNC_TENBASE environment variable to specify a different set of 10 displays. 



The irony of this is that I can start virtuoso fine when I don't ask for -nograph mode (when I ask it not to use the X server, it fails saying it cannot find the xserver, otherwise it works without problems).

I have tried searching with Google: no luck finding anything on this error message from Cadence or on non-graphical X servers in general.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get virtuoso talking to the 'non-graphical X Window Display server', whatever that is?

August

(I originally posted this on the designers-guide.org forum, but someone suggested this might be a better forum, so I re-posted it here. If I get a good answer here I will share it on the designers-guide.org forum as well)

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    skillUser over 10 years ago

    Hi August,

    Try taking a look at Solution Article 11684138

    by default the VNC server that is used to 'receive' the graphics for a -nograph session use ports between 80 - 89 inclusive.  If these are all in use then you will get the warnings shown above.  Using the CDS_XVNC_TENBASE variable you can change the default range for where the VNC session numbers fall within; it would be set to a number from 1-9 - if set to, say, 2, then the VNC sessions would range from 20-29.

    Hopefully I'm not mangling the information, there is a little more complexity, but hopefully this explains the basic operation.  It could be that there really are too many VNC sessions already running, but look at the above first.

    Hope it helps,

    Lawrence.

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    skillUser over 10 years ago

    Hi August,

    Try taking a look at Solution Article 11684138

    by default the VNC server that is used to 'receive' the graphics for a -nograph session use ports between 80 - 89 inclusive.  If these are all in use then you will get the warnings shown above.  Using the CDS_XVNC_TENBASE variable you can change the default range for where the VNC session numbers fall within; it would be set to a number from 1-9 - if set to, say, 2, then the VNC sessions would range from 20-29.

    Hopefully I'm not mangling the information, there is a little more complexity, but hopefully this explains the basic operation.  It could be that there really are too many VNC sessions already running, but look at the above first.

    Hope it helps,

    Lawrence.

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