On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:01 AM, Marko Weber <weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> getting this when starting virt-manager
>
> databunka src # virt-manager
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 383, in <module>
> main()
> File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virt-manager.py", line 285, in main
> raise RuntimeError(_("Unable to initialize GTK: %s") % gtk_error)
> RuntimeError: Kann GTK nicht initialisieren: could not open display
>
> i already remerged gtk
Hi Marko,
make sure you have the DISPLAY variable exported to root as I asume you've been
logged in as user but then dropped privileges up to root and maybe your user
environment wasn't inherited from within your X session.
# echo $DISPLAY
:0
So long,
Christian Parpart.
