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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 1998 15:26:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PF_LOCAL socket problems?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.980713152426.17587A-100000@echonyc.com>
In-Reply-To: <13738.22232.735035.745625@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Over the weekend, I built world (and kernel) for the first time in
> months.  Much to my chagrin, I've had X apps dying with BadLength X
> errors all day.   The primary offendors are Netscape & Xemacs, which 
> tend lock up after issuing errors like:

I don't get this with netscape, but xmix does it reliably on startup.
 
> The reason I suspect PF_LOCAL sockets is because these problems go
> away if I set my DISPLAY to machinename:0.0 rather than :0.0.
> As I recall, X apps talk to a server with a display of :0.0 via
> PF_LOCAL sockets.

Hey, look at that, I set DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 and now xmix works.
 
> Not that it matters, but this is on a 300Mhz PII, running XF86 3.3.2
> (XF86_SVGA atop a 4MB NNidia Riva128 agp video card)

200 MHz PPro here, same X server, but the S3V version.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems." 


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