On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Marc Aurele La France wrote:
>
> > Redirected to devel@
> >
> > On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Peter Breitenlohner wrote:
> >
> > > It would be extremely helpful if one could compile XFree86 with IPv6
> > > support, but then disable IPv6 at runtime via configuration files
> > > (resources) and/or command line options (in order to avoid various
> > > timeouts), and the programs should automatically fall back to IPv4 in case
> > > IPv6 is not supported by the kernel.
>
> There isn't a config file option (if no-one else adds one I might)
> but there is the command line switch "-nolisten inet6".
>
> This switch gets rid of the messages
> _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
> _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/ard:0
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
> which I otherwise get on my RedHat 6.2 machine, so I think it is
> disabling inet6 on this machine.
>
> Does this solve your problem ?
No it does not. This option only applies to the Xservers: XFree86 and Xnest,
not to xdm which causes my problems. And even with that option Xnest
produces a warning message:
XDMCP warning: INET6 UDP socket creation failed
regards
Peter Breitenlohner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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