X11 and GNU emacs

[John Burton]

In article <1991Mar11.222925.25685 at news.larc.nasa.gov> jka at radar0.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
> Hello out there,
>     I've just built and installed GNU emacs on a COMPAQ 386-33
> running ISC unix v2.2. Everything seems to work fine except that
> when I try to start emacs under X windows I get the following:
>
> X server not responding. Check your DISPLAY environment variable.
>
> I built emacs with HAVE_X_WINDOWS and X11 defined. anyone have any
> idea whats wrong.
>				      Thank You,
>-- 
>"In this world you must be OH so smart or OH so pleasant...
>			 I recommend pleasant"----> Elwood P. Dowd
>Lockheed Eng. and Sci. Co./Nasa Larc|J. Keith Alston jka at radar0.larc.nasa.gov

I would also like to learn the answer to this one...I get the same error message,
but under a different set of conditions...

I'm running an IBM RS/6000 under AIX 3.1 using the Motif/Xwindows supplied by IBM.
I have two other machines that I regularly use over the network, one a Sun 3/280 and
the other a Sun SparcStation 1, both running SunOS 4.1.1. All three machines are 
running GNU Emacs 18.57. Emacs works fine on all three locally (when I'm on that
machine's console using Xwindows.) and it works remotely from the sparc to the 3/280 and
from the sparc to the RS/6000 and from the RS/6000 to the 3/280. When I try to bring
up emacs on the sparcstation from the RS/6000 and let it have its own window (i.e.
using "emacs", not "emacs -nw") I get the same error message

 X server not responding. Check your DISPLAY environment variable.

For the setup I just mentioned, the DISPLAY variable is set correctly
on the remote machine (sparcstation) AND all the other Xwindows tools I use
work fine, even displaying images and dvi files...the only time I get that 
message is with emacs on the sparcstation with the sparcstation as my remote
machine and the RS/6000 as my local machine...HELP!!!

John Burton
(jcburt at gatsibm.larc.nasa.gov)
G & A Technical Software