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Date:      Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:21:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
To:        "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
Cc:        brian@awfulhak.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PPP and X ?!?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.970922152444.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <199709221916.OAA18281@horton.iaces.com>

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On 22-Sep-97 Paul T. Root wrote:
>In a previous message, Patrick Gardella said:
>> Here is a strange error...
>> 
>> 
>> If I go the other way around, starting ppp (dialing out) as I startx, I freez
e 
>> up ppp (which I can then kill and restart).
>> 
>> If I startx, and then start ppp no problem.
>> 
>> Nothing shows up in /var/log/ppp.log, by the way besides the normal messages 
]
>> (LCP IPCP CCP).
>> 
>> This happened with the standard 2.2.1 release of X and PPP as well.  I upgrad
ed
>> to the latest to see if that would work.
>> 
>> I'm not sure how they are related.  Any other pertinent info needed?
>> 
>> Patrick
>> 
>> P.S.  This is very easy to prevent, so I am able to work around it.  It's jus
t 
>> annoying when I forget ;)
>> 
>
>
>I had the opposite problem, but maybe it's the same sort of thing. 
>Mine turned out to be the machine was trying to do dns resolution and
>was timing out without the interface up. Is hosts before dns in your
>/etc/host.conf file? A good way to see what's happening is to run tcpdump on 
>tun0 while you try to bring up X. Then you can see what's happening on
>the interface. 
>
>Also check /etc/X0.hosts. and .xsession.errors in your home directory.

Hosts is before dns in /etc/host.conf.

xsession-errors does not have anything unusual in it.  (I'm missing "rock"
when I use xlockmore.)

I don't have an /etc/X0.hosts.  Should I?

For that matter, why does X do a dns resolution when it starts?  All it starts 
is a xterm and afterstep.

How can I see a tcpdump when I startx?  I type startx, get a screen of text from
XF86Config, and then it freezes.  Can't switch consoles, etc.

Pat




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