I emerged dbdesigner after adding the following line in /etc/portage/package.keywords : dev-db/dbdesigner ~x86 It successfully emerged, then I type "startdbd" to start DBDesigner but it writes this : roman roman # startdbd Symbolic links exist Starting DBDesigner4 ... roman roman # And nothing else happens. The DBDesigner log file ~/.DBDesigner4/DBD4.log contains : DBDesigner4: cannot connect to X server Whereas I think it is actually started since I'm using Gnome. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add "dev-db/dbdesigner ~x86" to /etc/portage/package.keywords 2. emerge dbdesigner 3. startdbd Actual Results: Symbolic links exist Starting DBDesigner4 ... And in the DBD4.log file : DBDesigner4: cannot connect to X server Expected Results: Starting DBDesigner window. Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.proxad.net/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://adelie.polymtl.ca/ ftp://cs.ubishops.ca/pub/gentoo ftp://gentoo.risq.qc.ca/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.itdnet.net/gentoo/ http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ http://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://files.gentoo.gr" LINGUAS="en fr" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam fastcgi flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl imlib ipv6 jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_en linguas_fr userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Tried starting it with a differnet user than root?
Thank you, you are right. I was trying to launch it as root. Under a normal users it works perfectly :-).
