Re: tlug: xset

[Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>]

Hi all,

On 05-Dec-98 Andrew S. Howell wrote:
>>>>>> "Jim" == Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com> writes:
>     Jim> found I couldn't telnet to localhost in an xterm. 
>     Jim> TRANS(SocketINETConnect) () can't get address for
>          wormhole
> 
> This sounds like a dns or /etc/hosts problem.

Not running named on this box and can ping localhost....

After a bit more investigation, this seems to be an X problem.
>From the console, I can telnet localhost OK, but from X, I can't.
Whatever is causing this is probably causing navigator4.5 to
fail as well. (Nav3 and 4.05 work fine, as does xset, xsetroot
etc after I restart X, btw)

Still puzzeled, mutter mutter....

Jim S.

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