On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, Peter Breitenlohner wrote: > > > 1. xdm produced an error message > > > chooser socket creation failed > > > and there was just a useless parent process but no child process(es) and no > > > Xserver was started. ...
> > > 2. Trying to start chooser by hand lead to a segmentation fault! ... > > Please check if your changes actually fix the problem. > attached please find a patch addressing these problems. This patch fixes some > of the most obvious problems but more needs to be done. > In a situation were the linux kernel does not support IPv6 sockets > ad 1. The IPv6 enabled xdm does start a local X server but does not accept > chooser connections. > ad 2. The IPv6 enabled chooser works fine provided xdm is compiled without > IPv6 support. > Since there are many places with '#ifdef IPv6' I haven't found out why the > chooser<=>xdm interaction fails. > ************************************** > Just another point: even if (the IPv6 enabled) Xnest is started with > '-nolisten inet6' a message > XDMCP warning: INET6 UDP socket creation failed > is produced. I suspect the same happens with XFree86. This certainly should > not happen. OK. I've committed this. Perhaps someone else will step up to fix the remaining progblems. Thanks. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 developer and VP. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
