Tomcat out-of-the-box has absolutely zero X11 dependencies. It must be something in your webapp.
There are two ways to deal with this: 1) If you are using a 1.4.x JVM, you could try running it as 'headless'. 2) Install Xvfb, to provide a virtual X11 server. "Greg Zoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello, > > I'm having a problem where I log into a server w/telnet, and run JBoss > (w/embedded tomcat). > > The server fails in jasper with X11 auth problem. > > I have a workaround: use ssh -X to handle X. If I use ssh -X instead of > telnet, everything works fine. But because I can't explain why there is > any X11 dependency for our server-side app, my boss deems this fix a > "hack", and requires me to find a "real solution". > > The error is: > > Can't connect to X11 window server ... > > Why is there any X11 dependency on a server-side app? We have no > servlets or anything like that. We are using apache struts. > > Precisely: > > My login page comes up (a JSP page) > This page forwards to my first app page, which causes the X11 error. > Figuring maybe something on this page was too complex (graphical, or > whatever), I replaced it with another JSP page containing "Hello world" > and nothing else. No dice... same X11 problem. > > I've tried building a new Linux server w/o any X11 installed on the box > at all. This time I get even stranger errors: > > 00:12:49,053 ERROR [Engine] ApplicationDispatcher[/codatest] > Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw exception > org.apache.jasper.JasperException: > /opt/java/jre/lib/i386/libfontmanager.so: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > at > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:2 54) > [clip] > > When I created a symlink to fix this I got my old X11 error back > again! > > It seems something is still trying to use graphics. > > Is there a way to handle this situation or is using ssh -X my only option? > > Any explanation of this situation would be most appreciated. > > Thanks! > Greg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
