x11/gdm strange behavior on NetBSD/i386 and MacOS X

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 I recently built x11/gdm from pkgsrc-current on several NetBSD/i386-current
(3.99.16) systems.  While the local login worked fine, remote connections, either
by direct query or by indirect (chooser) did not work.  The chooser claimed there
were no serving hosts.

Some poking around ultimately showed that, although properly configured, gdm
was not listening on IPv4 port 177, but only on IPv6 port 177.  Looking back in the
build-time options, The supported options are "inet6 pam" and inet6 was selected by
default.  When I built it with PKG_OPTIONS.gdm=-inet6, IPv4 operation was
restored.

Has anyone else seen anything like this with gdm and NetBSD/i386?


I also built gdm on MacOS X 10.4.5 at the same time.  with the default ine6 option,
it correctly listens on 177 for both IPv4 and IPv6.

On MacOS X, it can listen for connections from remote displays, but all logins fail
with the claim that the user or password is incorrect.  I need to verify that the stock
xdm with MacOS X's X11 still works, though.  It did the last time I tried it.

Thanks

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