Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:32:19 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Marcel Stangenberger <marcel@hayholt.org> Cc: John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>, "Brent J. Ermlick" <brent@bermls.oau.org>, Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLVED: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030103230219.GI43679@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030103105902.V901@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <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> <20030103061318.E195@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030103064910.GE43679@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030103105902.V901@eldar.hayholt.org>
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On Friday, 3 January 2003 at 11:11:13 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Microsoft to give you any further >> information, but since you say that it happened after the DHCP lease >> expires, you should check your configuration files on the Microsoft >> machine to see if they are making any assumptions about IP addresses. >> You could also try manually starting the client on eldar, pointing it >> at the (running) X server on your Microsoft box. Something like: >> >> xterm -display microsoft:0 > > this did the trick, after i started it, it gave the report that it > couldn't find the computername. I checked the DNS entry's and they where > all correct. After that i checked the /etc/hosts and saw that there was > an error there. (the computername was listed multiple times with diverent > IP's). After correcting this, xdm gave my Xserver a beautifull login > prompt. :-) Glad to hear that we've solved the problem. But looking back, consider the approach. Reinstalling seldom helps. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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