From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 21:08:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 225E616A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:08:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob@roblytle.org) Received: from smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout06-01.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [64.202.165.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E23543D45 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:07:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rob@roblytle.org) Received: (qmail 8017 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2006 21:07:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (24.20.8.31) by smtpout06-04.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.227) with ESMTP; 22 Feb 2006 21:07:56 -0000 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:07:13 -0800 From: Rob To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20060222130713.01ef8d63.rob@roblytle.org> In-Reply-To: <20060222182720.GA45869@flame.pc> References: <20060222101759.66d3e0e3.rob@roblytle.org> <20060222182720.GA45869@flame.pc> Organization: LKA X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.6.9; i386-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Giorgos Keramidas Subject: Re: problem regarding setting DISPLAY env variable and hostname X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:08:00 -0000 On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 20:27:20 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-02-22 10:17, Rob wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out how to set the display name on my > > computer. I have a program used with Xorg that gives me the error > > message: > > > > _X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for xenon:6000: hostname nor servname provided, or not known > > Error: Can't open display: xenon:0.0 > > > > also when starting or stopping Xorg I either get: > > > > bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or > > bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command > > Your laptop can't resolve the name "xenon". > > > I have my XDISPLAY env variable set using (in Bash): > > > > DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY > > > > xenon is the name of the machine > > > > I think part of the problem is the setting of the hostname. This laptop > > runs off of DHCP and I am not really sure about what I should do for > > setting the hostname. The manual says to set HOSTNAME="" in rc.conf if > > using DHCP, but then I get the amnesiac message upon boot. Sendmail > > doesn't like that either and hangs during the boot process. So I just > > set it arbitrarily to "xenon" > > Note that the capitalization of rc.conf variables is *significant*. The > real rc.conf variable that you have to set to avoid the "Amnesiac" name is: > > hostname="xenon" > > > I have read manual pages, searched the archives, but I am really confused > > about all of this. Thank you for any help. > > All this can be resolved by using `/etc/hosts'. Just add your hostname > there and point it to the 127.0.0.1 address. Then all programs should be > able to resolve it. > > > Thanks Giorgios, I think that I have the hostname problem resolved. rc.conf has hostname="xenon" and /etc/hosts has: 127.0.0.1 localhost xenon So now Xorg does not give errors on startup or shutdown like the > > bad display name "xenon:0" in "remove" command or > > bad display name "xenon:0 in "list" command But when not setting the DISPLAY variable explicitely anywhere I still get the error: "out of display lists" upon starting the program I want from xterm But then setting DISPLAY=xenon:0.0 export DISPLAY and then executing the program then gives the error: "Can't open display: xenon:0.0" so I guess I am back to square one. Maybe I should call it a day and rest, haha. Thanks, Rob -- ----------------------- http://www.roblytle.org Rob Lytle Home Page