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Greg Earle (earle@jplpub1.JPL.NASA.GOV) asked me this morning:

		Last Feb 3rd you posted a  note to Xpert about startup
	problems with Xsun, and getting No Listeners  messages and the
	like... Since I never saw  any Xpert reply  to your query, and
	obviously you've gotten it  solved somehow, I thought I'd  ask
	you what the final resolution was.
	

	Indeed, we have solved the   problem (or   at least found  its
cause and a workaround), and I think I recall Paul Placeway  posting a
brief note  about it to comp.windows.x (and  thereby  Xpert).  In case
that didn't make it out, I guess I really should discuss what happened
in our case.  I trust that Mr Earle  won't mind my  making part of our
discussion public.

	We got it  to run just dandy  on a Sun-3/50  shortly  after my
inquiry  of  Xpert, and  then we  looked   closely at the Installation
document and noticed that it  never specifically mentions  support for
the Sun-2 series machines.  But that  turned out not  to be the actual
problem after all.

	After some success with  the Sun-3s,  we recompiled the server
on  a Sun-2/120, and  it ran.   The difference   (if you believe this)
seems to be that originally, I  strip(1)ped  the server before testing
it.  I seem to have gotten into the bad  habit of stripping everything
before installing it, and  in  this case, apparently before testing it
thoroughly.  (I didn't even remember  doing it.)  I  don't do that any
more.

	Nobody here understands just why it is  that stripping makes a
difference in this case, but that's the only  difference we could find
between the non-working server and a working server.   In fact, I took
a  working Sun-2 server and made  it stop working  by simply stripping
it.  Stripping didn't seem to affect  a Sun-3/50 server.  This was all
under Sun OS  3.0.  We have installed 3.2  now, and I  haven't retried
the experiment yet.  I'll let you know what comes of it when I do.
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