Date: Tue, 4 Jul 1995 12:41:07 +1000 (EST) From: clary@elec.uq.oz.au (Clary Harridge) To: erich@jake.lodgenet.com (Eric L. Hernes) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netscape causing reboot of diskless clients Message-ID: <9507040230.AA06315@s1.elec.uq.edu.au> 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? -- regards Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Clary Harridge University of Queensland, QLD, Australia, 4072 Phone: +61-7-365-3636 Fax: +61-7-365-4999 INTERNET: clary@elec.uq.edu.au
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