Trying to get firefox running on CentOS 6 minimal iso - can't open display
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I've got minimal CentOS 6 running on an Oracle VirtualBox on a Mac. I'm trying to get Firefox up and running so I can download some web files into the VM.
I installed Firefox (yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox). I also installed Xserver (yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb) as I wasn't sure if it was included in the minimal OS install.
I then export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52 and then tried to start firefox but it said:
Error: can't open display: 10.0.5.52.
What do I need to do to get firefox to display?
x11 firefox centos
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
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I've got minimal CentOS 6 running on an Oracle VirtualBox on a Mac. I'm trying to get Firefox up and running so I can download some web files into the VM.
I installed Firefox (yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox). I also installed Xserver (yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb) as I wasn't sure if it was included in the minimal OS install.
I then export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52 and then tried to start firefox but it said:
Error: can't open display: 10.0.5.52.
What do I need to do to get firefox to display?
x11 firefox centos
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
Do you want Firefox to place its windows on the Mac or inside the CentOS window?
– Mark Plotnick
Jun 29 '14 at 14:26
why not download files usingwget
– debal
Dec 20 '16 at 12:12
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I've got minimal CentOS 6 running on an Oracle VirtualBox on a Mac. I'm trying to get Firefox up and running so I can download some web files into the VM.
I installed Firefox (yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox). I also installed Xserver (yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb) as I wasn't sure if it was included in the minimal OS install.
I then export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52 and then tried to start firefox but it said:
Error: can't open display: 10.0.5.52.
What do I need to do to get firefox to display?
x11 firefox centos
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
I've got minimal CentOS 6 running on an Oracle VirtualBox on a Mac. I'm trying to get Firefox up and running so I can download some web files into the VM.
I installed Firefox (yum --enablerepo=remi install firefox). I also installed Xserver (yum install xorg-x11-server-Xvfb) as I wasn't sure if it was included in the minimal OS install.
I then export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52 and then tried to start firefox but it said:
Error: can't open display: 10.0.5.52.
What do I need to do to get firefox to display?
x11 firefox centos
x11 firefox centos
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
edited Jun 29 '14 at 0:14
slm♦
239k65494665
239k65494665
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
asked Jun 28 '14 at 23:52
Jazzmine
11624
11624
Do you want Firefox to place its windows on the Mac or inside the CentOS window?
– Mark Plotnick
Jun 29 '14 at 14:26
why not download files usingwget
– debal
Dec 20 '16 at 12:12
add a comment |Â
Do you want Firefox to place its windows on the Mac or inside the CentOS window?
– Mark Plotnick
Jun 29 '14 at 14:26
why not download files usingwget
– debal
Dec 20 '16 at 12:12
Do you want Firefox to place its windows on the Mac or inside the CentOS window?
– Mark Plotnick
Jun 29 '14 at 14:26
Do you want Firefox to place its windows on the Mac or inside the CentOS window?
– Mark Plotnick
Jun 29 '14 at 14:26
why not download files using
wget– debal
Dec 20 '16 at 12:12
why not download files using
wget– debal
Dec 20 '16 at 12:12
add a comment |Â
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Try doing this:
$ export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0
Then run Firefox again. Also be sure to run xhost + on the host 10.0.5.52 so that it's able to accept X applications being "sent" to it from other servers. This method is considered poor from a security stand point but is perfectly fine to use to confirm things are working properly. With that working, spend a bit more time considering your security posture in this use case and do something a bit more explicit using xhost +someremoteserver instead.
Also you could use ssh to tunnel the X application instead of using xhost. There's typically a bit of a performance hit but it's often tolerable and worth it in my opinion.
$ ssh -X someremoteserver firefox
excerpt from ssh man page
-X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host
basis in a configuration file.
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
@Jazzmine - you have to run the commandxhost +on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ranxhost +on the host with the actual desktop, right?
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
add a comment |Â
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
1 Answer
1
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
up vote
0
down vote
Try doing this:
$ export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0
Then run Firefox again. Also be sure to run xhost + on the host 10.0.5.52 so that it's able to accept X applications being "sent" to it from other servers. This method is considered poor from a security stand point but is perfectly fine to use to confirm things are working properly. With that working, spend a bit more time considering your security posture in this use case and do something a bit more explicit using xhost +someremoteserver instead.
Also you could use ssh to tunnel the X application instead of using xhost. There's typically a bit of a performance hit but it's often tolerable and worth it in my opinion.
$ ssh -X someremoteserver firefox
excerpt from ssh man page
-X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host
basis in a configuration file.
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
@Jazzmine - you have to run the commandxhost +on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ranxhost +on the host with the actual desktop, right?
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
Try doing this:
$ export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0
Then run Firefox again. Also be sure to run xhost + on the host 10.0.5.52 so that it's able to accept X applications being "sent" to it from other servers. This method is considered poor from a security stand point but is perfectly fine to use to confirm things are working properly. With that working, spend a bit more time considering your security posture in this use case and do something a bit more explicit using xhost +someremoteserver instead.
Also you could use ssh to tunnel the X application instead of using xhost. There's typically a bit of a performance hit but it's often tolerable and worth it in my opinion.
$ ssh -X someremoteserver firefox
excerpt from ssh man page
-X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host
basis in a configuration file.
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
@Jazzmine - you have to run the commandxhost +on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ranxhost +on the host with the actual desktop, right?
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
add a comment |Â
up vote
0
down vote
up vote
0
down vote
Try doing this:
$ export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0
Then run Firefox again. Also be sure to run xhost + on the host 10.0.5.52 so that it's able to accept X applications being "sent" to it from other servers. This method is considered poor from a security stand point but is perfectly fine to use to confirm things are working properly. With that working, spend a bit more time considering your security posture in this use case and do something a bit more explicit using xhost +someremoteserver instead.
Also you could use ssh to tunnel the X application instead of using xhost. There's typically a bit of a performance hit but it's often tolerable and worth it in my opinion.
$ ssh -X someremoteserver firefox
excerpt from ssh man page
-X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host
basis in a configuration file.
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
Try doing this:
$ export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0
Then run Firefox again. Also be sure to run xhost + on the host 10.0.5.52 so that it's able to accept X applications being "sent" to it from other servers. This method is considered poor from a security stand point but is perfectly fine to use to confirm things are working properly. With that working, spend a bit more time considering your security posture in this use case and do something a bit more explicit using xhost +someremoteserver instead.
Also you could use ssh to tunnel the X application instead of using xhost. There's typically a bit of a performance hit but it's often tolerable and worth it in my opinion.
$ ssh -X someremoteserver firefox
excerpt from ssh man page
-X Enables X11 forwarding. This can also be specified on a per-host
basis in a configuration file.
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
answered Jun 29 '14 at 0:13
slm♦
239k65494665
239k65494665
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
@Jazzmine - you have to run the commandxhost +on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ranxhost +on the host with the actual desktop, right?
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
add a comment |Â
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
@Jazzmine - you have to run the commandxhost +on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ranxhost +on the host with the actual desktop, right?
– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
Actually using export DISPLAY=10.0.5.52:0 had no impact. Still get error: cannot open display 10.0.5.52:0 when issuing the firefox command at a command prompt. I also started xhost + on my host first, which started up an instance of X Windows (I think that's what happened, this is a little new to me).
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:29
@Jazzmine - you have to run the command
xhost + on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
@Jazzmine - you have to run the command
xhost + on 10.0.5.52 as well. The permission denied is the other server disallowing the Firefox window from being sent.– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:31
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
Ok, I just ran xhost + on the guest (VM) terminal and it automatically responded with xhost: Unable to open display "10.0.5.52:0"
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:35
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
And a little bit more info: i got my ip address from the VM's ifconfig command and selected the inet ip address. Sound good?
– Jazzmine
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ran
xhost + on the host with the actual desktop, right?– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
@Jazzmine - you ran
xhost + on the host with the actual desktop, right?– slm♦
Jun 29 '14 at 0:37
add a comment |Â
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Do you want Firefox to place its windows on the Mac or inside the CentOS window?
– Mark Plotnick
Jun 29 '14 at 14:26
why not download files using
wget– debal
Dec 20 '16 at 12:12