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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Using :0 rather than localhost:0.0 tells the X server to use unix pipes
rather than IP for the transport (I think). Unfortunatly, my problem is
displaying stuff on a laptop from a desktop. The problem is definitly
not one of authentication, but of transport. A simple 'strace xclock'
will stop at the point where it does inet6 stuff.

On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:43, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting "\"Jimmy Yen(顏孝杰)\"" <jimmy AT yen.tp>:
> > Eric Sandall wrote:
> > 
> > >Quoting Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>:  
> > >  
> > >
> > >>I also have this problem now, and have IPV6 enabled (as a module) in 2.6
> > and  
> > >>  
> > >>have recompiled net-tools to have IPV6 enabled, but I still receive 
> > >>this  
> > 
> > >>error. Do you have the modules loaded?  Are they compiled into the 
> > >>kernel? 
> >  
> > >>Does XFree86 require anything else?   
> > >>    
> > >>
> > I believe the only thing I did was compiling IPv6 into the kernel, and 
> > enabled IPv6 in net-tools. I'm not entirely sure, but the problem seems 
> > to be showing up only after I upgraded to xfree86 4.3.99.
> > >>   
> > >>I'll keep trying, but hoping your answer will help.   
> > >>   
> > >>-sandalle   
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >  
> > >Well, if I add ipv6 (# modprobe -v ipv6), I get a different error:  
> > >(this is as any user, including the current user of the X window)  
> > >  
> > >xhost:  unable to open display "localhost:0.0"  
> > >Unable to connect to display localhost:0.0  
> > >/tmp/.tuxnwnsetup/setup.run: line 44:  1320 Segmentation fault       
> > >/tmp/tuxsetup $PWD  
> > >xhost:  unable to open display "localhost:0.0"  
> > >  
> > >
> > What happens if you issue an xhost +? I'm just guessing because I don't 
> > play NWN, but is it only NWN that's borken?
> > 
> > >Before, I received this error, so it is, somewhat, an improvement:  
> > >_X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp 
> > >_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp 
> > >_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/localhost:0 
> > >xhost:  unable to open display "localhost:0.0" 
> > >_X11TransSocketOpen: socket() failed for tcp 
> > >_X11TransSocketOpenCOTSClient: Unable to open socket for tcp 
> > >_X11TransOpen: transport open failed for tcp/localhost:0 
> > >Unable to connect to display localhost:0.0 
> > >  
> > >-sandalle  
> > >  
> > >
> 
> I fixed this on one of my machines by loading the ipv6 module (after 
> recompiling
> net-tools to have IPv6 support and rebooting), but the other machine 
> continued
> to have this problem, which I fixed by editing their script to not use
> 'localhost:0.0' but just ':0'. I had also tried 'xhost +' to disable
> authentication, but that didn't fix it, not even xterm would connect.  I 
> think I
> may have some strange setting somewhere, but I'm not sure yet.  That's what 
> I
> get for using a devel version of xfree86 and the kernel.  ;)
> 
> Thanks for the help!  ;)
> 
> -sandalle