From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 21 6:26:47 2002 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 9183D37B400; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:26:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.southeast.rr.com (smtp2.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A899D43E4A; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 06:26:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bts@fake.com) Received: from mail5.nc.rr.com (fe5 [24.93.67.52]) by smtp2.southeast.rr.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g7LDRMts023846; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:27:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from this.is.fake.com ([24.162.238.30]) by mail5.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:26:34 -0400 Received: by this.is.fake.com (Postfix, from userid 111) id 456A7BA12; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:26:20 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" To: Steve Tremblett , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: weird X problem Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 09:26:19 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20020821091517.A16327@sjt-u10.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20020821091517.A16327@sjt-u10.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200208210926.19974.bts@babbleon.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday 21 August 2002 09:15 am, Steve Tremblett wrote: | I just upgraded my laptop to XFree86 4.2 and everything seemed to work, | but I just discovered a MADDENING problem. | | I have xhost lines in my xinitrc to allow remote X programs for a | handful of machines, but since upgrading 4.0->4.2 those machines can't | display on the server. I checked the xhost commands, and the hostnames | are correct. I tried using the IP address instead with no success. | The workstation can ping the laptop, so it isn't a network problem. It | all comes down to the laptop not allowing X clients that xhost says it | should. | | Does this ring a bell with anyone? Alternatively, does anyone have any | suggestions on diagnostics to figure out what's going wrong? I am running into similar problems. I worked around it by ssh'ing to the system and then displaying through the ssh display connection, but I doubt that I should ahve to do this. -- Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message