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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!super.zippo.com!zdc!news4.noc.netcom.net!noc.netcom.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ppp and X problems Date: 22 Aug 1996 16:48:55 +0100 Organization: Coverform Ltd. Lines: 51 Message-ID: <4vhvh7$fd@anorak.coverform.lan> References: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960819123027.456A-100000@destrier.acsu.buffalo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.coverform.lan X-NNTP-Posting-Host: awfulhak.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] jgk@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote: : I have installed BSD 2.1 on my computer, and I having troubles setting up : the ppp connection, and X windows. I have a pentium 100 with 16 megs of : ram, a trident video card TGUI 9680 chipset(supported in : Xfree86 beta) and a 28.8 modem. I am able to dial out on my modem using : kermit. : During bootup, I get a couple of error messages, that I cannot fix. : ifconfig_tun0: not found You've been editing /etc/sysconfig havn't you :) Put the equals sign after the line that just says "ifconfig_tun0". This line is meant to set an environment variable, not run a program ! : starting routing daemons: routedrouted: router/udp: unknown service : starting network daemons: portmap syslog: syslog/udp: unknown service : inetd. Playing with /etc/services too ? : Why can't sysconfig find ifconfig_tun0?? : the device tun0 is there in /dev : What are the routing daemon errors and the network daemon errors?? It shouldn't be able to, doesn't matter here, problems w/ /etc/services (or maybe inetd.conf?). : Also when I try to start X windows, I get error messages: : _X11TranSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=2 : _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener : _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed : _XSERVTransMakeALLCOTSServerListeners: faild to create listener for tcp : Fatal server error: : Failed to establish all listening sockets : giving up : xinit: Interupted server call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server : xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error /etc/services ? -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....