"xrdb: Can't open display" error

Question

After the text from the bootup process I get error:
xrdb: Can't open display ''
img=error message.   
After this startx and autologin works fine. 
I can ignore this message, but still want to solve this, how can I do this?
moderator edit (ewaller) converted image tags to over sized image to a url link in accorance with our policy.
Last edited by pgiback (2014-07-28 17:03:22)

Answer 1

I connected as root, from the tty tried to "xrdb /home/user/.Xresources" and got same "xrdb: Can't open display" message. 
My .Xresources:
! Removes gap around terminal -- this one is a must!!!
xterm*internalBorder: 6
xterm*loginShell: true
xterm*saveLines: 2000
! Revome boarder
xterm*borderWidth: 0
! Double click to select a word
xterm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48
! Clipboard -- thus one is a must
xterm*VT100.translations: #override <Btn1Up>: select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0)
! Font
xterm*faceName: Vera Mono
xterm*faceSize: 10
! Can remove these - dont know what changes
xterm*vt100*geometry: 80x60
xterm*termName: xterm-color
xterm*eightBitInput: false
! DOS-box colours...
xterm*background: rgb:08/0c/11
xterm*foreground: rgb:b9/84/00
xterm*color0: rgb:00/00/00
xterm*color1: rgb:d3/62/65
xterm*color2: rgb:ae/ce/91
xterm*color3: rgb:e7/e1/8c
xterm*color4: rgb:7a/7a/b0
xterm*color5: rgb:96/3c/59
xterm*color6: rgb:41/81/79
xterm*color7: rgb:20/24/28
xterm*color8: rgb:66/66/66
xterm*color9: rgb:ef/81/71
xterm*color10: rgb:e5/f7/79
xterm*color11: rgb:ff/f7/99
xterm*color12: rgb:41/86/be
xterm*color13: rgb:ef/9e/be
xterm*color14: rgb:20/24/28
xterm*color15: rgb:ff/ff/ff
! replaze bold
xterm*boldMode: false
xterm*colorBDMode: true
xterm*colorBD: rgb:82/a4/d3
! Do not underscore text, underlined text is white.
xterm*colorULMode: true
xterm*colorUL: rgb:e4/e4/e4
Edit: I am adding my dwm config.h as I started to get these errors same day as I tried to modify my config.h
/* appearance */
static const char font[] = "-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*";
static const char normbordercolor[] = "#444444";
static const char normbgcolor[] = "#222222";
static const char normfgcolor[] = "#bbbbbb";
static const char selbordercolor[] = "#111111";
static const char selbgcolor[] = "#005577";
static const char selfgcolor[] = "#eeeeee";
static const unsigned int borderpx = 1; /* border pixel of windows */
static const unsigned int snap = 32; /* snap pixel */
static const Bool showbar = True; /* False means no bar */
static const Bool topbar = True; /* False means bottom bar */
/* tagging */
static const char *tags[] = { "term", "vim", "work", "web", "misc"};
static const Rule rules[] = {
/* class instance title tags mask isfloating monitor */
{ "Firefox", NULL, NULL, 1 << 3, True, -1 },
/* layout(s) */
static const float mfact = 0.55; /* factor of master area size [0.05..0.95] */
static const int nmaster = 1; /* number of clients in master area */
static const Bool resizehints = True; /* True means respect size hints in tiled resizals */
static const Layout layouts[] = {
/* symbol arrange function */
{ "[]=", tile }, /* first entry is default */
{ "><>", NULL }, /* no layout function means floating behavior */
{ "[M]", monocle },
/* key definitions */
#define MODKEY Mod4Mask
#define TAGKEYS(KEY,TAG) \
{ MODKEY, KEY, view, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask, KEY, toggleview, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, KEY, tag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} }, \
{ MODKEY|ControlMask|ShiftMask, KEY, toggletag, {.ui = 1 << TAG} },
/* helper for spawning shell commands in the pre dwm-5.0 fashion */
#define SHCMD(cmd) { .v = (const char*[]){ "/bin/sh", "-c", cmd, NULL } }
/* commands */
static const char *dmenucmd[] = { "dmenu_run", "-fn", font, "-nb", normbgcolor, "-nf", normfgcolor, "-sb", selbgcolor, "-sf", selfgcolor, NULL };
static const char *terminal[] = { "xterm", NULL };
static const char *browser[] = { "firefox-nightly", NULL};
static const char *vim[] = { "xterm", "-title", "vim", "-e", "vim", NULL };
static const char *news[] = { "xterm", "-title", "newsbeuter", "-e", "newsbeuter", NULL };
static const char *music[] = { "xterm", "-title", "mocp", "-e", "mocp", NULL };
static Key keys[] = {
/* modifier key function argument */
{ MODKEY, XK_p, spawn, {.v = dmenucmd } },
{ MODKEY, XK_space, spawn, {.v = terminal } },
{ MODKEY, XK_a, spawn, {.v = browser } },
{ MODKEY, XK_q, spawn, {.v = vim } },
{ MODKEY, XK_s, spawn, {.v = news } },
{ MODKEY, XK_x, spawn, {.v = music } },
{ MODKEY, XK_b, togglebar, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_j, focusstack, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_k, focusstack, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_i, incnmaster, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_d, incnmaster, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_h, setmfact, {.f = -0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_l, setmfact, {.f = +0.05} },
{ MODKEY, XK_Return, zoom, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_Tab, view, {0} },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_c, killclient, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_t, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[0]} },
{ MODKEY, XK_f, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[1]} },
{ MODKEY, XK_m, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[2]} },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_space, setlayout, {0} },
{ MODKEY, XK_0, view, {.ui = ~0 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_0, tag, {.ui = ~0 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_comma, focusmon, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY, XK_period, focusmon, {.i = +1 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_comma, tagmon, {.i = -1 } },
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_period, tagmon, {.i = +1 } },
TAGKEYS( XK_1, 0)
TAGKEYS( XK_2, 1)
TAGKEYS( XK_3, 2)
TAGKEYS( XK_4, 3)
TAGKEYS( XK_5, 4)
{ MODKEY|ShiftMask, XK_q, quit, {0} },
/* button definitions */
/* click can be ClkLtSymbol, ClkStatusText, ClkWinTitle, ClkClientWin, or ClkRootWin */
static Button buttons[] = {
/* click event mask button function argument */
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button1, setlayout, {0} },
{ ClkLtSymbol, 0, Button3, setlayout, {.v = &layouts[2]} },
{ ClkWinTitle, 0, Button2, zoom, {0} },
{ ClkStatusText, 0, Button2, spawn, {.v = terminal } },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button1, movemouse, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button2, togglefloating, {0} },
{ ClkClientWin, MODKEY, Button3, resizemouse, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, 0, Button1, view, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, 0, Button3, toggleview, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, MODKEY, Button1, tag, {0} },
{ ClkTagBar, MODKEY, Button3, toggletag, {0} },
Last edited by pgiback (2014-07-28 18:16:39)