On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:11:59PM +0100, Martin MOKREJS wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, David Dawes wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 03:09:50AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>> >[CC'ed to devel@xfree86.org as well]
>> >
>> >On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:44:09AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 8 Jan 2004, at 02:38, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> >While I'm testing XFree86 4.4.0RCx releases recently, I can't find
>> >> >how to make IPv6-enabled XFree86 work with a IPv4-only kernel.
>> >>
>> >> What kind of errors/failures are you experiencing ?
>> >> I've run the IPv6 enabled XFree86 on machines with v4 only kernels
>> >> without problems.
>> >
>> >The error message is as follows:
>> >
>> >_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
>> >_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/krishna.mogua.com:0
>> >_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6
>> >
>> >Fatal server error:
>> >Failed to establish all listening sockets
>>
>> You need to include -DPART_NET in your ServerOsDefines.  This makes
>> things like that non-fatal.  XFree86 servers build with this option
>> by default.
>
>I had the same problem on my Gentoo Linux box, I "fixed" that by enabling
>IPv6 in kernel. i just want to point out the flags should get into the
>mainstream distribution, or I'm desperate users who missed that critical
>requirement in RELNOTES .... :)

Did you get a fatal error, or just a (harmless) warning message?
Like I said, for a default build of the XFree86 servers, this would
just be a non-fatal warning.

David
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