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Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg
- From: Alexander Gottwald <alexander dot gottwald at s1999 dot tu-chemnitz dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 16:00:52 +0200 (MEST)
- Subject: Re: Differnce between Xfree and Xorg
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On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, aroushdi wrote:
> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > aroushdi wrote:
> >
> >>Fatal server error:
> >>Xserver: failed to bind to -from address: icc68651
> >
> >
> > I've build a small test program which will query the interface address
> > which xwin tries to bind to.
> >
> > get it from http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~goal/xfree/gethostbyname.tar.gz
> > unpack it, run ./gethostbyname icc68651 and report the output.
> >
> > bye
> > ago
> >
> > NP: [:SITD:] - Laughingstock (No Compromise Remix)
> Hi Alex , Please find below the output of gethostbyname. Sorry to
> respond a little bit late but I was on vacation .
> $ gethostbyname icc68651
> hostname: icc68651
> address: 199.1.100.60
> address: 192.168.37.1
> address: 192.168.124.1
>
> By the way i have downloaded the XFREE86 package and I have the same
> problem on the second XWIN . This installation was done on a plain
> machine . I guess it is a CYGWIN change that triggered this behaviour.
>
> How can we proceed .
The unable to bind message is quite hard to track down. I'll try to
add a more descriptive message which will hopefully reveal what the
cause of the problem is. But this may take some days since I'm quite
busy these days.
bye
ago
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