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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!news.orst.edu!news.uidaho.edu!usenet From: Faried Nawaz <fn@uidaho.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Something wrong with my X Date: 22 Oct 1995 17:17:20 -0700 Organization: posix power! Lines: 27 Sender: nawaz921@crater.cs.uidaho.edu Distribution: world Message-ID: <im7n1xuk8f.fsf@crater.cs.uidaho.edu> References: <paul-2010951621140001@ppaul.sierra.net> Reply-To: fn@uidaho.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: crater.cs.uidaho.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-reply-to: paul@sierra.net's message of Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:21:14 -0800 X-Newsreader: (ding) Gnus v0.99.13 In article <paul-2010951621140001@ppaul.sierra.net> paul@sierra.net (Paul Schurwing) writes: $ Any help on this would be greatly appreciated: $ $ Running FreeBSD 2.0.5, I've installed pretty much everything, including $ X. I actually had X working for a few minutes. Once I had that, I went $ brought up PPP. Ever since X won't run! $ $ I run startx, just like I did before, and here is what I get (this is $ a whole dump, in case any item sheds light.): [ deleted ] $ $ ... and then I'm back to a regular prompt. $ $ Clearly, something I did while bringing up PPP cause X to behave differently, $ I'm just clueless as to what I did. perhaps it can't find your hostname? how are you resolving your hostname? how different is the output of netstat -ran before and after you bring up ppp? i have my hostname defined in /etc/hosts, and host.conf checks host before bind.