Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. Anything with the vfb extension
causes the usage statement. I found the virtual frame buffer documentation
early last week and read it pretty thoroughly before contacting this list.
I also tried the recommended call in those docs. It's as if I don't have
vfb installed. That extension is not even in the usage statement. The
-sme extension refers to vfb, but that doesn't work either. Brian (the
original poster from last year) has opened a case with IBM. I'm hoping to
hear from him what the results are.
Allie
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X :2 -vfb &
As simple as it looks, works.
-force doesn't seem to be documented... anywhere I can find.
-x are extensions, which don't seem to be needed for NetView... the
extensions shown in Paul's post are not documented either.
My test was the simple case and worked, and I would go with that until it
fails or hangs netviewd.
Pauls command line is a direct quote from the AIX 5 doc (link below). For
the longest time the Xvfb doc was gone. At some point it was updated and
re-posted with the AIX 5 doc. And the command syntax has changed. I happy
to find it again.
The doc also shows how to test and see what is in the vfb, which is tedious
but cool.
See:
http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixprggd/aixwnpgd/xvfb.htm
Regards,
Geo.
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I googled a bit and came up with this command line:
/usr/lpp/X11/bin/X -force -vfb -x GLX -x abx -x dbe :n &
Now this doesn't really look any different than yours,
it adds some additional x-extensions which should not
be needed for NetView and -force. Try the command line
above and see if it works, if not, I think its time to
contact AIX and find out what the "new" command line
is(the page I found this on metioned 5.1). If you have
to go that route, please write back and let us know what
you come up with! If it does work, try it without the
-x options. Also, make sure something weird hasn't happened
and something is already using :2, try starting it with :3.
Paul
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> There are no man pages installed for xvfb or Xvfb. This is an extension
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> X and should be a switch X -vfb. I am running AIX 5.1.0-04 with X11.vfb
> installed. Again, this worked just fine before the reboot. The reboot was
> done just to ensure a clean slate before some maintenance. Perhaps my
> libpath is not set right. Anyone else running in my environment willing
to
> share their libpath? I'm reaching, but I'm desperate.
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>>That didn't help. What I meant to say earlier was that even when I run
>>/usr/bin/X11/X -vfb -n :2 I get the same result - the usage statement. I
>>should be able to run this from the command line w/o the & to test if
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>>edit startXvfb
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>>make sure the & is the last character in the line; (in vi the cursor
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>>delete any following blank lines
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>>That fixed it on my lab system
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