X problem

Norberto Quintanar yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:18:31 -0700 (PDT)


Ah, XF86Config problems, my favorite.  

add: 

"nolisten inet6"
 
like you did and 

"nolisten tcp" 

options to xserver

It "should" solve your problem easily
Good luck
Norberto

--- "R. Scott Boughton" <> wrote:

> I've got a G5 hooked to a network. When I log onto a network user 
> account and try to run startx,
> it doesn't work and the top of the log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log
> has 
> the following lines.
> 
> >     _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for
> inet6
> >     _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/<hostname>:0
> >     _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open
> listener for inet6
> >
> I've tried modifying /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers to include the
> line
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten inet6
> 
> but this didn't help.
> 
> It's also notable that I can create a local user, log in, and
> startx 
> works fine.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> Scott
> 
> 
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