On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> I loged on as root and typed startx and to my horror it never came
> up! I did a Ctrl-Alt-F1 and among other things I saw it say over and over
> and over..."unable to open socket for local".
It sounds like you have something badly misconfigured. Have you upgraded
everything it tells you to upgrade in Documentation/Changes? If so, are
you running the latest X server? If so, is the loopback device correctly
configured (what do ifconfig and route -n say?)? You should know that X
works by the applications communicating through a socket to the X server-
if you are running the server and the app on the same machine, it
communicates through localhost. If that route didn't exist, then it would
be "unable to open a socket to localhost".
> It's clear the kernel workers never tried 2.2.0 on a Red Hat 5.2
That is a totally ridiculous statement. I've been running the development
kernels for over a year on RedHat 5.0, upgrading the various bits and
pieces as I go along. There are many thousands of developers running
RedHat 5.2 with just the few upgraded packages that it needs.
> loaded Linux. Nor have they tried it with the ax25-utils. Since I can't
Don't you think that the kernel AX25 hackers might just possibly be using
the ax25utils?
> even get X windows loaded there is no telling what else failed...:-(
That's your problem. I've never had a problem with X and 2.1/2.2.
> So, for those who have yet to try the new 13 mbyte when a tar.gz
> kernel be warned. It doesn't work very well.
It does work very well. 2.2.0 had a few small bugs which could cause, eg.
a reboot on 'ldd core', but these have been fixed in 2.2.1 which is a very
good, stable release.
As for your problem with modules, did you remember to compile kmod into
the kernel? I've never had a single problem with it (unlike kerneld which
messed up several times in the past). Are you certain that you are running
the latest modutils?
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