On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Joseph Spenner <joseph85750 at yahoo.com>wrote: > I'm running a piece of network backup software called 'bacula', on a > minimal CentOS 6.4 install. > I got everything working pretty well, but there's one piece giving me some > problem-- a component which gives status info via a GUI. > In the past, on previous installations, I could ssh to the bacula server > with the -X option, and run the application (called 'bat'), and it would > display back. I'd have to make sure the sshd_config permits Xforwarding, > but that was all. > > On my new CentOS 6.4 minimal, I always get: > > bat: cannot connect to X server > > I tried the usual tricks of exporting the display to my system where I > want to see the GUI, which shouldn't be necessary anyway due to the 'ssh > -X', but I thought I'd give it a shot. Still no go. > > I figured something was missing, since it is a minimal install, with no > X. So I installed 'xlogo', thinking maybe all the X stuff needed to > display that would be installed. By installing xlogo, I got a bunch of X > stuff, including: > > xorg-x11-apps-7.6-6.el6.x86_64 > > I also have: > > libXau-1.0.6-4.el6.x86_64 > libX11-1.5.0-4.el6.x86_64 > libXrender-0.9.7-2.el6.x86_64 > libXcursor-1.1.13-2.el6.x86_64 > libXft-2.3.1-2.el6.x86_64 > libXxf86vm-1.1.2-2.el6.x86_64 > libXi-1.6.1-3.el6.x86_64 > libXmu-1.1.1-2.el6.x86_64 > libXaw-1.0.11-2.el6.x86_64 > libX11-common-1.5.0-4.el6.noarch > libXext-1.3.1-2.el6.x86_64 > libXfixes-5.0-3.el6.x86_64 > libXdamage-1.1.3-4.el6.x86_64 > libXrandr-1.4.0-1.el6.x86_64 > libXinerama-1.1.2-2.el6.x86_64 > libXv-1.0.7-2.el6.x86_64 > libXt-1.1.3-1.el6.x86_64 > libXpm-3.5.10-2.el6.x86_64 > > But I still get the error. > > Anyone know which package/rpm/lib I am missing? > > Thanks! > > Regards, > Joseph Spenner > > ______________________________________________________________________ > If life gives you lemons, keep them-- because hey.. free lemons. > "♥ Sticker" fixer: http://microflush.org/stuff/stickers/heartFix.html > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > At a minimum I would install xorg-x11-xauth, xorg-x11-tools, xorg-x11-apps, and xorg-x11-xterm. Also make sure you configure X11Forwarding to yes in sshd_config.