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My end goal is to run firefox in headless mode with xvfb.
But Xvfb requires Xorg, and I'm running into a problem with Xorg.

When I fire up an instance using this AMI:

ami-4a24d623 RightImage_CentOS_5.4_i386_v5.5.9_EBS

Then do:

yum install Xorg

Then reboot the instance, I get failed status checks, and I can't log into the instance. Server Logs (Instance Actions->Get Server Log) are blank.

What am I doing wrong? Do I need to configure Xorg somehow?

Dan
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  • Turns out I did not need Xorg, just Xvfb. You may get errors like this when running Xvfb: Couldn't open RGB_DB '/usr/share/X11/rgb' _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/domU-12-31-39-04-48-DD:99 A link elsewhere on the interwebs says (correctly) that installing Xorg will eliminate some of these errors. Turns out I was able to just ignore the errors, and my application still did what it needed to. – Dan Jan 29 '12 at 19:37

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I disabled SElinux which helped me bring instance up

Sasha Segal
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