Mark Vojkovich writes: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Egbert Eich wrote: > > > Mark Vojkovich writes: > > > Out of curiosity. Is the ipv6 supposed to be working properly now? > > > Last time I updated, I noticed that remote operation was broken. > > > That is, Xlib was unable to connect to a remote system (I assume > > > it didn't work with internet sockets anymore, but unix domain sockets > > > still worked). > > > > > Hm, what did you do? I never had any issues connecting to a remote > > system. Neither thru ipv4 nor ipv6. The only thing I noticed was > > that there are still issues with authetication for ipv6. > > For mu tests I used the -ac option to get around this. > > > > Did you get any error messages? > > > > The server is on dhcp-178-150:0 and is slightly newer than XFree86 4.3, > but is not from any recent CVS. It is pre-ipv6 support. It has access > control disabled (xhost +). > > The client is on dhcp-178-251 and is using fairly recent libraries > from CVS. The DISPLAY is set to dhcp-178-150:0.0 and I get: > > _X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp > _X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp > _X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/dhcp-178-150:0 > xterm Xt error: Can't open display: dhcp-178-150:0.0 > > > I find that: > > 1) The 4.3 libraries can connect to a CVS server. > 2) CVS libraries can connect to a CVS server. > 3) CVS libraries cannot connect to a 4.3 server. >
It looks like the same problem Andrew had. Your Xlib is built with IPv6 support, but your kerneld doesn't support it. One of the patches I've posted is supposed to take care of it. I still have a huge backlog of email to read. If noone has objected so far I will commit my fixes later. Egbert. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
