From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 21:22:13 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C223F37B406; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:22:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (hayholt.org [195.18.102.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D15043E4A; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 21:22:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from eldar.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62244AF11; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 06:21:42 +0000 (WET) Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 06:21:51 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: John Bleichert , "Brent J. Ermlick" , Scott Mitchell , "" Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? In-Reply-To: <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <20030103061318.E195@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <20030102143903.GA71301@bermls.oau.org> <20030102161006.M177@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is not going to work. Don't reinstall without a good reason. > What's more, it's pretty clear that you're looking in the wrong > place. I've looked at your original message and you say you're using > the server to connect to your local client. That's wrong. It looks > as if exceed is a client (I've never heard of it), and it's not > connecting to your local server (display). Reinstalling X remotely is > obviously not going to do anything. > Exceed is the server, XFree86 is running the client. XFree86 is running on my FreeBSD box, Exceed is running on my windows box. > I may be misunderstanding; there's a lot of confusion here. Can you > clarify: > > - Which machines are running X? My FreeBSD server (eldar) > - On which machine(e) did you reinstall X? on eldar > - Which X client are you talking about? the eldar is the X client > - What is exceed? Exceed is a X server to be used in windows > - Can you run X normally on your local machine? it used to work until i lost my dhcp lease and since then it doesn't work anymore. The reason i'm looking at the freebsd machine, is because it doesn't work on both my workstation (which i was using at the time of the dhcp incident) and on my laptop which i wasn't using at that time. Since the dhcp incident the Xserver never gives a login prompt, but it does pop up the chooser. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message