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Windowserver can't find port when SLIP is up

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From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:37
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I've followed all the directions that came with the SLIP 920506
package and I'm running 2.1 extended and using Mamakos' SLIP package
(nice package by the way).  When I get the proper IP address and
complete host name (all four parts of the name, not just the first) in
NetManager and reboot, SLIP comes up and connects with the SLIP
server.  But then the windowserver says it's sleeping and then it says
it can't find a port.  SLIP, meanwhile, seems to be connected fine and
doing some data transfer (I can see both send and receive lights
flashing) of some kind.  I don't know what it's trying to do.  I just
get continuous messages saying windowserver is sleeping or it cannot
find some port.  I never get a login window.

Also, before any of this happens, the machine puts up the 'can't find
parent NetInfo server, press 'c' to continue without parent server'
prompt, even though i configured the machine (in NetMgr) to be a
non-netinfo machine.  If I hit 'c' it continues up to the point I
describe above.

Could someone help me to get SLIP running?  Any help you could provide
will be most appeciated.

Thanks.
-- 
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
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From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Windowserver can't find port when SLIP is up
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Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 20:37:58 GMT
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