On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:50:53AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: > I'm kind of new to this, so would appreciate a hand. I just got through > configuring a custom kernel. Both makebuild and installbuild take place > with no problems and the kernel boots just like it's supposed to. But > when I try to bring up X I get this error message: > > _XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6 > _XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/remdog.net:0 > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
These three lines only indaicate that you don't have IPv6 networking, but is not a problem. > _XSERVTransSocketINETCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed > _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Maybe you forgot something netowrking related. Please show a diff(1) of you kernel configurations, see below. > Fatal server error: > Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't > already running > > I rebooted with the old kernel and everything is back to normal. > Obviously I removed something from the kernel configuration file that I > shouldn't have. Can someone give me a heads up on just what that might > be? Please post the output of 'diff -u oldconfig newconfig', where oldconfig and newconfig are replaced by the paths of the old and new kernel configuration files. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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