On Oct 21, 7:28 pm, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.comwrote:
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:50:54 -0700, sophie_newbie
<paulgeele...@gmail.comdeclaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
Hi, I'm running a python script which if I run from the command line
as root runs fine. But if I run it through the web-browser as a cgi
script gives the following error "Error in X11: unable to start device
PNG".
Now I should say that this python script is calling fucntions in R (a
scripting languange used in statistics) using the python module RPy,
so this I dunno if this is entirely a Python question, because as far
as I can see the error is being thrown by R. But then as I say, when
the script is run by the root user from the command line everything
goes off without a hitch.
Ah, but does it run if you boot into a NON-graphical command shell
mode...
That error message looks suspiciously like something is trying to
open a graphical display window... A web-server likely does not have any
graphical environment.
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Ya thanks looks like you're actually right. The strange thing is that
the program, when run from a graphical command line, doesn't actually
open any display window. Although the code doesn't run when executed
as a webserver, most likely, as you pointed out, because there is no
graphical environment. I wonder if there any way I can somehow enable
a graphical environment for the webserver, or do I have to re-write
the underlying code?