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From: greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Bizzare strangeness...the saga continues
Message-ID: <1990Jan16.031244.6009@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 16 Jan 90 03:12:44 GMT
References: <1462@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov>
Reply-To: greg@sj.ate.slb.com (Greg Wageman)
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In article <1462@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> adam@ncifcrf.gov writes:
>Well, I got nothing from my first posting, and I have a little more
>information now, so I thought I'd try again. I built X11R4 on our
>4/260C (cgtwo+gpone) earlier this week, and it was working for about 6
>hours, then we lost the disk that the software was on. Sun came in and
>replaced the disk AND the controller (to the latest rev), and I
>reloaded all the software from tape, but it doesn't work anymore. The
>message I get is:
>
>xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to connect to X server
>
>There's also another (bizzare) quirk. All of the clients work using
>another machine's display, except for the fact that they have to have
>the remote machines IP address:0  instead of hostname:0 as the display.
>It's like gethostbyname is failing, because the client error message is:
>
>Error: Can't Open display
>
>(as opposed to Cant Open Display 'displayname')

You don't possibly have a mixed network of 4.0.x and 3.x machines, do
you?  With multiple yp-servers?  I have seen 4.0.x machines hang
trying to do yellow-pages lookups when bound to pre-4.0.x servers.

If you have another yp server, try doing a "ypset" to it, and see if
the problem clears up.  Oh, and you will need to run ypbind with the
undocumented "-ypset" option to allow this if you're running 4.0.x.

(For all concerned, it would really help in getting answers to
questions if you would say what OS you are running!)

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