Okay, I have added "baal" as a 2nd alias after "baal.amalekite.net" in
my /etc/hosts so that I now only get...

ERROR - Connection to server baal failed - Error during initialization.

...and not any other connection error. I can do this...

baal: {1} ping -c 1 baal
PING baal.amalekite.net (192.168.0.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.0.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.155 ms

----baal.amalekite.net PING Statistics----
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.155/0.155/0.155/0.000 ms
baal: {2}

...so it's nothing to do with /etc/hosts. Yet all my other X programs
work as befofe. Is there some log in OpenDX which would tell me what
to look for next? why it fails to connect?

TIA

Gan

Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
> Machine "baal" is the same as localhost. The /etc/hosts file
> lists it as baal.amalekite.net but I can add "baal", of course.
> It had always connected before as localhost. All of my other
> X utilities, blackbox, IceWM, mozilla, thunderbird, NEdit,
> Sodipodi etc, etc...all work fine.
> Gan
> Mattijs Janssens writes:
> 
>> Your machine (baal) is not in /etc/hosts?
>> Mattijs
>> Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
>>
>>> I made an oops in the first report.
>>> Under the window which says...
>>> ERROR -- Connection to server baal failed -- Error during 
>>> initialization.
>>> ...is another window which says...
>>> ERROR -- Unable to resolve baal, connecting locally.
>>> ...it never used to say...
>>> ERROR -- Connection to server baal failed -- Connecting locally
>>> ...I had just misremembered that part. I have also attached my
>>> XFree86 log if that is informative.
>>> TIA
>>> Gan
>>>
>>> Gan Uesli Starling wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just upgraded my PC with a new Intel D875PBZ motherboard, a 3.2GHz 
>>>> P4 and 4 GB RAM. The sad part is that the upgrade cost a fortune and 
>>>> I did it ONLY for OpenDX. And so far as I can tell, OpenDX is the 
>>>> only program
>>>> that is having a problem with it....or so it seems.
>>>> Everything EXCEPT OpenDX continues to work as before. But on running 
>>>> a program in OpenDX I now get this error...
>>>> Connection to server baal failed - Error during initialization
>>>> ...whereas I had used to get...
>>>> Connection to server baal failed - Connecting locally
>>>> ...and it would just work.
>>>> I have just uninstalled/reinstalled OpenDX on my NetBSD 1.6.2_RC4 
>>>> box to no better result. It does the same.
>>>> What to do next???
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Gan


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