From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 3 15: 2:25 2003 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 1283E37B401 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:02:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3289A43EB2 for ; Fri, 3 Jan 2003 15:02:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 895785194F; Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:32:19 +1030 (CST) Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 09:32:19 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Marcel Stangenberger Cc: John Bleichert , "Brent J. Ermlick" , Scott Mitchell , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLVED: XFree86 lockfile? Message-ID: <20030103230219.GI43679@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102234936.GF57152@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030103061318.E195@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030103064910.GE43679@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030103105902.V901@eldar.hayholt.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030103105902.V901@eldar.hayholt.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Friday, 3 January 2003 at 11:11:13 +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: >> I'm afraid I don't know enough about Microsoft to give you any further >> information, but since you say that it happened after the DHCP lease >> expires, you should check your configuration files on the Microsoft >> machine to see if they are making any assumptions about IP addresses. >> You could also try manually starting the client on eldar, pointing it >> at the (running) X server on your Microsoft box. Something like: >> >> xterm -display microsoft:0 > > this did the trick, after i started it, it gave the report that it > couldn't find the computername. I checked the DNS entry's and they where > all correct. After that i checked the /etc/hosts and saw that there was > an error there. (the computername was listed multiple times with diverent > IP's). After correcting this, xdm gave my Xserver a beautifull login > prompt. :-) Glad to hear that we've solved the problem. But looking back, consider the approach. Reinstalling seldom helps. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message