[nas] NAS 1.5 problem

[Jon Trulson]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Paul Fox wrote:

> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:02:55 -0500
> From: Paul Fox <pgf at foxharp.boston.ma.us>
> To: Raymond Toy <toy at rtp.ericsson.se>
> Cc: NAS Mailing List <nas at radscan.com>
> Subject: Re: [nas] NAS 1.5 problem 
> 
>  > With DISPLAY=:0.0, I start nasd -aa.  It starts.  When I try to
>  > connect with auinfo, auinfo hangs.
>  > 
>  > If I start like nasd -aa :1, and run (AUDIOSERVER=:1  auinfo),
>  > everything works as expected.
> 
> i've had trouble trying to get NAS to follow the DISPLAY variable
> for some time now.
> 
> i just ran the following tests:
> 
>     a) DISPLAY=:0.0 auinfo
>     b) AUDIOSERVER=:0.0 auinfo
>     c) DISPLAY=locahost:0.0 auinfo
>     d) AUDIOSERVER=locahost:0.0 auinfo
>     e) DISPLAY=realhostname:0.0 auinfo
>     f) AUDIOSERVER=realhostname:0.0 auinfo
> 
> and cases a, c, and e hung, while b, d, and f worked.
> 

	Hmm. curious.  Did the failure cases eventually time out?  Was
this on a SVR4 machine?  I got rid of the libaudio STREAMS stuff for SVR4
in the 1.4.2x timeframe due to local connection issues like these using
stream based transports.


> on the other hand, case e) _does_ work when run on a machine _other_
> than "realhostname".  (i.e. it works remotely, but not locally.)
> 
> this is all with nas 1.4.1, i believe.
> 

	I'll give these a shot as well under 1.5.  


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