bob@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (Bob Sutterfield) (03/17/87)
Greg Earle (earle@jplpub1.JPL.NASA.GOV) asked me this morning:
Last Feb 3rd you posted a note to Xpert about startup
problems with Xsun, and getting No Listeners messages and the
like... Since I never saw any Xpert reply to your query, and
obviously you've gotten it solved somehow, I thought I'd ask
you what the final resolution was.
Indeed, we have solved the problem (or at least found its
cause and a workaround), and I think I recall Paul Placeway posting a
brief note about it to comp.windows.x (and thereby Xpert). In case
that didn't make it out, I guess I really should discuss what happened
in our case. I trust that Mr Earle won't mind my making part of our
discussion public.
We got it to run just dandy on a Sun-3/50 shortly after my
inquiry of Xpert, and then we looked closely at the Installation
document and noticed that it never specifically mentions support for
the Sun-2 series machines. But that turned out not to be the actual
problem after all.
After some success with the Sun-3s, we recompiled the server
on a Sun-2/120, and it ran. The difference (if you believe this)
seems to be that originally, I strip(1)ped the server before testing
it. I seem to have gotten into the bad habit of stripping everything
before installing it, and in this case, apparently before testing it
thoroughly. (I didn't even remember doing it.) I don't do that any
more.
Nobody here understands just why it is that stripping makes a
difference in this case, but that's the only difference we could find
between the non-working server and a working server. In fact, I took
a working Sun-2 server and made it stop working by simply stripping
it. Stripping didn't seem to affect a Sun-3/50 server. This was all
under Sun OS 3.0. We have installed 3.2 now, and I haven't retried
the experiment yet. I'll let you know what comes of it when I do.
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