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Date:      Thu, 29 Mar 2001 00:10:25 -0500
From:      "David Paetz" <d.paetz@home.com>
To:        "Jonathan Chen" <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: XFree86 & Problems when DNS not available...
Message-ID:  <20010329050815.WCAH12540.femail3.rdc1.on.home.com@cr549312-a>
In-Reply-To: <20010329085825.A98526@itouchnz.itouch>

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:58:25 +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote:

>On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:57:07AM -0500, david wrote:
>
>[...]
>> So, for some reason it seems that I have some type of configuration/install 
>> problem, as it seems for me to be able to run X or programs in X, that it 
>> is using the DNS server for resolution.
>> 
>> I confirmed this today my just unplugging the network cable and I had the 
>> same results as previously.
>> 
>> Has anyone seen this before?  Could someone point me in the right direction 
>> on how to troubleshoot or fix this?
>
>Last time I had this, I had some /etc/X0.hosts file hanging around,
>which I removed. Also, the problem could be related to your
>window-manager. Does it occur if you use something simple like `twm',
>with nothing else starting up except xterms?
>
There unfortunately aren't any X0.hosts file hanging around, at least not in /etc.  I get 
the same results if I am just tring to run X with just twm.

Any other suggestions?


Many thanks for your reply,


David.


David
EMAIL: d.paetz@home.com



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