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From: hoyt@bessie.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Can't assign requested address
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.224238.28795@decatl.dec.com>
Date: 9 Jan 90 22:42:38 GMT
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Reply-To: hoyt@bessie.alf.dec.com (Kurt Hoyt)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Alpharetta, GA
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I just installed X11R4 on my VAXstation 3100. When testing with xinit, the
server complains with the following message:

Getting interface configuration: Can't assign requested address

I am running Ultrix 3.1. I used gcc-1.36 to compile and link.

The compile flags for os/4.2bsd (where the ioctl that failed is -- access.c)
were:

gcc -DNOSTDHDRS 
    -fstrength-reduce
    -fpcc-struct-return 
    -c -O -I../../../. -I. I../../include -I../../.././X11 -I../../.././lib/Xau 
    -Dultrix -Dvax -Dunix -Dbsd4_2
    -DSHAPE -DMITSHM -DMULTIBUFFER -DMITMISC -DXDMCP
    -DNOSTDHDRS -DX11R4 -DTCPCONN -DUNIXCONN  access.c

The DECwindows server will run just fine. Both use the 6000 + <display number>
TCP socket address, so I'm at a loss as to why the DECwindows server can get
that address, but X11R4 can't (the servers are run separately).

Kurt Hoyt
Digital Equipment Corporation
hoyt@decatl.alf.dec.com or hoyt@decatl.dec.com or hoyt%decatl@decwrl.dec.com
"Daddy, you not people, you a GUY! Mommy a girl." -- Faith Hoyt