Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 15:32:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@awfulhak.org Subject: Re: PPP and X ?!? Message-ID: <XFMail.970922153356.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <199709221930.OAA18457@horton.iaces.com>
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On 22-Sep-97 Paul T. Root wrote: >In a previous message, Patrick Gardella said: >> >> > >> >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. > >Ok. Is your name server on the other side of your ppp connection? Yes. Its on the ISP. >> 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? > >Probably not. X0.hosts sets what machines are allowed by default to >connect you your Xserver. This was what my problem was. It was trying to >resolve a bunch of machines in this file. Ah. Nope. Don't run an xserver. So we can eliminate that! >> For that matter, why does X do a dns resolution when it starts? All it start s >> is a xterm and afterstep. > >Normally, it probably won't. > > > >> How can I see a tcpdump when I startx? I type startx, get a screen of text f rom >> XF86Config, and then it freezes. Can't switch consoles, etc. > >Outta luck. Sorry. Unless you can bring up a terminal on a serial port >or telnet in from somewhere else. Maybe, you can set the c option to >collect 1000 packets or something and the -r option to send it to a >file. And hope it's there after you reboot. I'll try that when I can take the system down. That'll be fun, trying to get all three things to happen at one (ppp, tcpdump, startx) Pathome | help
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