Re: tlug: xset

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> This problem just seemed to pop out of nowhere....
> 
> I was trying to get navigator4.5 to start and I kept getting
> dissed with xset errors.
> 
> Well, after a little investigation, I didn't find a solution so
> I started looking at the system itself. That's when I found I
> couldn't telnet to localhost in an xterm.
> 
> I get the error:
> 
> TRANS(SocketINETConnect) () can't get address for wormhole
> xset:  unable to open display "wormhole:0.0"
> 
> So, I thought maybe this is an XDM problem so I rebooted to
> runlevel 5 (Slackware) and saw
> 
> xset: unable to open display ""
> 
> _before_ the login. Never saw that before....
> 
> Can anyone clue me in as to why this might be happening??

something's trying to open the display.  OH, yeah, Slackware compiles
their 2.0.x kernels with egcs (morons!  At comdex they said that "they
didn't have any trouble with it".... unfortunately their customers do).

So, I *think* it's a kernel issue.... Chris can probably clarify it
better, though.

* Note, TL, SuSE, and RH compile kernels with the older gcc, and they
work correctly.  Debian probably does too, but I haven't actually looked.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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