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- From: fkk@Germany.Sun.COM (Frank Kaefer - Sun Germany IR SysAdm Postmaster - Munich)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: Sun, X11R5 and openwindows
- Keywords: X11R5, Sun, OpenWindows
- Message-ID: <fkk.716540347@penang>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 06:59:07 GMT
- References: <1992Sep09.211513.19115@watson.ibm.com> <1992Sep13.121715.12657@discus.technion.ac.il>
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- haim@cs.technion.ac.il (Haim Roman) writes:
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- |In article <1992Sep09.211513.19115@watson.ibm.com>, johndew@watson.ibm.com (John Dewysocki) writes:
- ||> We have upgraded to SunOs 4.1.2 and X11R5, my problem is that
- ||> I can't start up openwindows any more. When I try to execute
- ||> openwin it complains in the following way, then dies:
- ||> Couldn't get base SunWindow
- ||> /usr/openwin/bin/xinit: Connection refused (errno 61): unable to
- ||> connect to X server
-
- |Egads, you too!? I've noticed the same problem, but, because of the
- |particular circumstances, I assumed that we really munged some system
- |files. Please post any answers you get to news.
- |Thank you.
-
- There might be a simple solution to this problem: just remove /tmp/.??*
- (ie .NeWS-unix .X11-unix) - this did the trick for me :-)
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- Cheers,
- Frank
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- Frank Kaefer, SUN Microsystems GmbH Germany, IS SysAdm Postmaster
- IS Solaris Transition Co-Ordinator Central Europe
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