failed to bind listener, etc.

Soyeb Aswat soyeb "at" btinternet.com
Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:00:13 +0000


> Does anyone know what would be causing this failure on a Sun computer
> running Solaris 7?
> 
> 
> _XSERVTransSocketCreateListener: failed to bind listener
> _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
> _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
> 
> Fatal server error:
> Failed to establish all listening sockets
> xrdb: Interrupted system call
> xrdb: Can't open display 'moose:1'
> xsetroot:  unable to open display 'moose:1'
> toolwait: Couldn't open display: moose:1
> Trying to start xterm anyway.
> xterm Xt error: Can't open display: moose:1

You need to "chmod 1777 /tmp/.X11-Unix"

Don't forget the dot!

Regards,

Soyeb

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