From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 19 11:45:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6CF37B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:45:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from maul.immure.com (ns.immure.com [207.8.42.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA96843F3F for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:45:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by maul.immure.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id h1JJjddO082977; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:45:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (luke.vieo.com [10.1.132.3]) by maul.immure.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JJjd4T082920; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:45:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@immure.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.7/8.12.3) id h1JJjdTE082695; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:45:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: from luke.immure.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by luke.immure.com (8.12.7/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h1JJjc2D082670; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:45:38 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bob@luke.immure.com) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.immure.com (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1JJjcfT082669; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:45:38 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:45:38 -0600 From: Bob Willcox To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Erick Mechler , stable list Subject: Re: Updated to today's -stable and can no longer connect to the XFree86 server Message-ID: <20030219194538.GB76145@luke.immure.com> Reply-To: Bob Willcox References: <20030218161705.GA4876@luke.immure.com> <20030219011808.GK50962@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030219033811.GA25426@luke.immure.com> <20030219152441.GG64649@techometer.net> <20030219153806.GA41721@luke.immure.com> <20030219193724.GI634@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030219193724.GI634@rot13.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on luke.immure.com X-scanner: scanned by Inflex 1.0.12.3 on maul.immure.com Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:37:24AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:38:07AM -0600, Bob Willcox wrote: > > > Well, I don't use xdm. I always have (for many years now) started the > > X server using startx, and I do see that startx (which hasn't been > > changed on my system since last December) does explicitly specify > > "-nolisten tcp" if not told otherwise. The thing that is a mystery to me > > is that before upgrading to Feb 18's -stable my X server was allowing > > connections. I can't explain why it used to work! :-) > > The default was changed quite a while ago, so perhaps you just hadn't > upgraded X in a long time? That's the mystery. I last updated XFree86 on Dec 23rd, and yet I have rebooted and restarted X several times since then (with connections to the X server working). This happened just yesterday (after upgrading the system and rebooting. Bob > > Kris -- Bob Willcox We seem to have forgotten the simple truth that bob@vieo.com reason is never perfect. Only non-sense attains Austin, TX perfection. -- Poul Henningsen [1894-1967] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message