[PyQt] Possible Issue with PyQt on Amazon EC2 Instance

[David Boddie]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2012 22:24:08 +0100, Phil Thompson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 17:17:22 -0400, Kevin Hu <kzh at MIT.EDU> wrote:
[...]
> > When I kill process Xvfb :99, and try again, I receive the error:
> >
> > ghost: cannot connect to X server :99
> > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> > [echonest at ip-10-4-85-75 ~]$ expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadOn: line
[...]
> > Would you say this is an issue with PyQt? How would you recommend I
> > proceed?
>
> There is nothing in the above than would suggest a PyQt problem.

Agreed. It sounds like Xvfb needs to be running. Perhaps starting a new
instance of it before running Ghost.py would be enough to make it work.

David