[comp.windows.x] twm talking to server

yeh@cs.purdue.EDU (Wei Jen Yeh) (04/10/91)

Hello,
  I installed the X386 package last night to my system running sVr4, and
ran into some problems.  I would appreciate if anyone can help me out.

1) The server came up ok, but xterm and twm couldn't open the display.
I used the default node name "amnesia".  Does anyone know what the problem
might be?  This is what happened.
  / # startx (or xinit)
      "Setting TCP SO_DONTLINGER: Option not supported by protocol."
      The background bitmap came up with mouse cursor movable
      That's it.

If I switched to another VT, then X died with message "unable to open display
unix:0" in /.xerrors.  I tried setting DISPLAY to "amnesia:0" but got similar
results.  What's wrong here?

2) I then tried to rename the system name to "unix".  sysadm did that w/o
any problems.  I then rebooted the machine.  However, upon rebooting, the init
process displayed the messages:
svc_create_statd: warning: no well known address for statd on transport ticlts
svc_create: Bad file number
unable to create(NLM_PROG, NLM_VERS) for netpath.

I then put "unix" (and later "unix:0") in /etc/X0.hosts and fired up X.
Still no luck.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Wei Jen Yeh                      yeh@cs.purdue.edu
                                 Department of Computer Science
                                 Purdue University
                                 West Lafayette, Indiana