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From: earle@POSEUR.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Bizzare strangeness...the saga continues
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Date: 16 Jan 90 11:24:42 GMT
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The solution to Adam Feigin's problem was that there was an entry in his
/etc/X0.hosts file that caused ResetHosts() (in server/os/4.2bsd/access.c)
to get indigestion, and when the host was to be added (via NewHost()),
something was screwed up and made the acopy() call (macro-ized bcopy()) blow
the server out of the water.  Thus the ECONNREFUSED - there was no server
there to listen on the UNIX domain socket by then (/tmp/.X11-unix/X0).

By moving his /etc/X0.hosts file out of the way, the server started.  Adam is
still trying to determine what exactly is in the /etc/X0.hosts file that caused
the NewHost() routine to blow its cookies.

Note to the general X Universe: is there a particular format that /etc/Xn.hosts
has to follow?  Any requirements for particular whitespace (like TABs), etc. ??

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