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From: clary@elec.uq.oz.au (Clary Harridge)
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Subject: Re: netscape causing reboot of diskless clients
To: erich@jake.lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 12:41:07 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199507031419.JAA10131@jake.lodgenet.com> from "Eric L. Hernes" at Jul 3, 95 09:19:56 am
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Thanks for your reply Eric!
> 
> > I find that since upgrading to FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950615,
> > diskless clients running XFree86-3.1, reboot when netscape is started.
	This also happens with other X clients
> > 
> > If I change the DISPLAY from :0.0 to RemoteDisplay:0.0 I can run netscape OK.
> 
> What kind of machine/os is running the NFS server?  I've seen similar
> problems with SCO being the server.  I suspect that other SYSV (non R4)
> implementations will be similar.
	The NFS server is a 486 running FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950616
> 
> It seems that SCO's nfs won't allow fbsd to make named sockets.  The X-server
> tries to make some unix-domain sockets in /tmp which clients will use to
> connect when using display :0.0. If the display is set to `hostname`:0.0,
> the clients will use inet-domain sockets, and things will work.
	Even when I setenv DISPLAY `hostname`:0.0 the system reboots.
> 
> I came up with two possible work arounds.
> 
>  1) a small mfs for /tmp/.X11-unix (if ram is plentiful)
How do you do this? Via fstab or /etc/rc? What parameters?


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