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 .... :)

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