Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:24:27 -0600 From: Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> Cc: stable list <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Updated to today's -stable and can no longer connect to the XFree86 server Message-ID: <20030219192427.GA76145@luke.immure.com> In-Reply-To: <20030219172347.GV288@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <20030218161705.GA4876@luke.immure.com> <20030219011808.GK50962@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030219033811.GA25426@luke.immure.com> <20030219152441.GG64649@techometer.net> <20030219153806.GA41721@luke.immure.com> <20030219154145.GI64649@techometer.net> <20030219154810.GA53525@luke.immure.com> <20030219172347.GV288@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:23:47AM -0800, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > This is just another shot in the dark, but I see that you are trying to > connect to a machine named 'luke'. Maybe your /etc/hosts file was > overwritten and now name resolution isn't happening like it should > locally? What happens if you try to connect using the ip address like: > $ xterm -display 192.168.1.100:0 I use named (DNS) to resolve all of my host names so my /etc/hosts file is empty. Right now my X server is allowing connections (I restarted it with "startx -listen_tcp") so I'm convinced that that was it (still doesn't explain why it used to work). > > Also, when on the machine named 'luke' what is the output of `xhost`. > If you want everyone to be able to connect then it should output > something like: > $ xhost > access control disabled, clients can connect from any host Yep. > > Also, can you verify 100% that X is actually listening on host 'luke' by > browsing the output of `sockstat -l4`? This is what I get right now: bob@luke:pa /home/bob> sockstat -l4|grep XFree86 root XFree86 41464 1 tcp4 *:6000 *:* but it's working now also. > > One more thing: how did you upgrade? Are you certain that you don't > have a firewall running on the newly upgraded system? I updated from source. I cvsup the cvs repo and update my /usr/src tree from that with cvs. > > Good luck, > Nathan Thanks for you time and thoughts, Bob > > -- > GPG Public Key ID: 0x4250A04C > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 4250A04C > http://63.105.21.156/gpg_nkinkade_4250A04C.asc -- Bob Willcox We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that bob@vieo.com reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains Austin, TX perfection. -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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