[avahi] avahi-discover- RunTimeError: could not open display

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 11.01.08 16:36, Amba Giri (giri.amba at gmail.com) wrote:

> Thanks for the response Lennart.  I have shelved this problem for
> the moment but will get back to it eventually.  I don't know of any
> other Gtk applications.  It is possible that some reqd. package is
> not loaded.  I have received the same error on both Ubuntu and
> Debian systems. Perhaps I should check into all the Debian packages
> to determine which Gtk related package needs to be loaded?

Are you really sure that you are running avahi-dsicover inside a
proper X11 session? i.e. is $DISPLAY initialized properly? Does
running a tool like "xdpyinfo" or "gedit" work?

Whatever this problem is, it is however unrelated to Avahi, most
likely some issue with your X setup and possibly pygtk.

Also, note that what avahi-discover does graphically you can do in a
terminal too, by running "avahi-browse -a".

Lennart

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