Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!convex.UUCP!root
From: root@convex.UUCP (Superuser)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Lost mail for you
Message-ID: <9006071727.AA15117@sushi>
Date: 7 Jun 90 17:27:44 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 53

From pescadero.stanford.edu!expo.lcs.mit.edu!xpert-mailer  Thu May 31 15:11:26 1990 remote from convex
Received: by sushi (5.51/7.0)
	id AA00291; Thu, 31 May 90 15:11:26 CDT
Received: by convex.COM (5.51/4.7)
	id AA01650; Thu, 31 May 90 14:22:12 CDT
Received: from Erebus.Stanford.EDU by uxc.cso.uiuc.edu with SMTP
	(5.62+/IDA-1.2.8) id AA28876; Thu, 31 May 90 14:23:08 -0500
Received: from Hanauma.Stanford.EDU by erebus.Stanford.EDU with TCP; Thu, 31 May 90 12:11:09 PDT
Received:  by hanauma.stanford.edu (5.51/7.0) 
		 id AA19457; Thu, 31 May 90 12:22:54 PDT
Received: from EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU by Pescadero.Stanford.EDU (5.59/25-eef) id AA18005; Thu, 31 May 90 12:21:43 PDT
Received: by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Thu, 31 May 90 11:05:51 EDT
Received: from shamash.cdc.com by expo.lcs.mit.edu; Thu, 31 May 90 11:05:30 EDT
Received: by shamash.cdc.com (5.59/CDC1.2)
	id AA04137; Thu, 31 May 90 10:06:56 -0600
Message-Id: <9005311506.AA04137@shamash.cdc.com>
Received: from louie.dms.cdc.com by hewey.dms.cdc.com with SMTP
	(15.11/15.6) id AA09156; Thu, 31 May 90 10:05:30 cdt
Received: by louie.dms.cdc.com
	(15.11/15.6) id AA06322; Thu, 31 May 90 10:04:24 cdt
From: Ian Hogg <convex!shamash.cdc.com!ian%hewey>
Subject: Re: Problems with HP server of X11 R4.
To: tomg%hpcvlx%hp-pcd@sdd.hp.com   (Thomas J. Gilg)
Date: Thu, 31 May 90 10:04:22 CDT
Cc: xpert@expo.lcs.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <100920221@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com>; from "Thomas J. Gilg" at May 29, 90 4:35 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL7]

> 
> 
> > I have a problem in getting the server ( hpX as supplied by X-consortuim )
> > to startup. It gives me the following error & exits :
> > 
> >   Binding unix socket : no such file or directory .
> 
> Make sure you have a writable /usr/spool/sockets directory so X and the 
> Graphics Resource Manager Daemon can create a socket for communications.
> You'll also need a writable /usr/spool/sockets/X11 directory.
> 
> drwxrwxrwx   5 bin      bin         1024 Aug 26  1989 /usr/spool/sockets
> 
> 

Make sure "/usr/spool/sockets" is a CDF if you are running HP diskless nodes.
I had a problem where the installation stuff (on HP-UX 6.5) did not make
"/usr/spool/sockets" a CDF. Clients (especially window managers) tended to die
whenever clients were started on other machines in the diskless cluster.


-- 
===============================================================================
Ian Hogg                                    email:  ian@dms.cdc.com
Control Data Corporation                    phone:  (612)-553-4484