Differnce between Xfree and Xorg

aroushdi aroushdi@hotmail.com
Tue Jun 15 10:09:00 GMT 2004


Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, aroushdi wrote:
> 
> 
>>Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>>
>>>aroushdi wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Fatal server error:
>>>>Xserver: failed to bind to -from address: icc68651
>>>
>>>
>>>I've build a small test program which will query the interface address
>>>which xwin tries to bind to.
>>>
>>>get it from http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/gethostbyname.tar.gz
>>>unpack it, run ./gethostbyname icc68651 and report the output.
>>>
>>>bye
>>>    ago
>>>
>>>NP: [:SITD:] - Laughingstock (No Compromise Remix)
>>
>>  Hi Alex , Please find below the output of gethostbyname. Sorry to 
>>respond a little bit late but I was on vacation .
>>$ gethostbyname icc68651
>>hostname: icc68651
>>address: 199.1.100.60
>>address: 192.168.37.1
>>address: 192.168.124.1
>>
>>By the way i have downloaded the XFREE86 package and I have the same 
>>problem on the second XWIN . This installation was done on a plain 
>>machine . I guess it is a CYGWIN change that triggered this behaviour.
>>
>>How can we proceed .
> 
> 
> The unable to bind message is quite hard to track down. I'll try to 
> add a more descriptive message which will hopefully reveal what the 
> cause of the problem is. But this may take some days since I'm quite
> busy these days. 
> 
> bye
> 	ago
Hi Alex I tried to mount a /tmp for each Xwin session
still no luck cannot bind the session
thks for ur help
amr



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