russo@chaos.utexas.edu (Thomas Russo) (02/21/90)
Ok. I just read the emacs "PROBLEMS" file, and seems like some people
have had this same "gethostbyname bombs if display is hostname:0"
problem too:
* Emacs won't work with X-windows if the value of DISPLAY is HOSTNAME:0.
Some people have found that Emacs was unable to connect to the local
host by name, as in DISPLAY=prep:0 if you are running on prep, but
could handle DISPLAY=unix:0. Here is what tale@rpi.edu said:
Seems as
though gethostbyname was bombing somewhere along the way. Well, we
had just upgrade from SunOS 3.5 (which X11 was built under) to SunOS
4.0.1. Any new X applications which tried to be built with the pre
OS-upgrade libraries had the same problems which Emacs was having.
Missing /etc/resolv.conf for a little while (when one of the libraries
was built?) also might have had a hand in it.
The result of all of this (with some speculation) was that we rebuilt
X and then rebuilt Emacs with the new libraries. Works as it should
now. Hoorah.
So, is there a chance that 3.2.1 broke X libraries in some strange
way? Has anybody ever run across such problems?
Thomas Russo
Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin
russo@chaos.utexas.edu or phib421@utchpc.bitnet
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