Re: gdnc doesn't want to run

[Fred Kiefer]

Peter Ellison wrote:
> I want to run GWorkspace on FreeBSD 4.9. But gdnc doesn't want to run. There
> is no other gdnc in the ix86 directory. When I do ./openapp
> ../Applications/GWorkspace.app, a message is displayed the hostname or
> something could not be found and "localhost" is used instead. And then:
> notification server could not be contacted, trying to start one... But it
> cannot start one. When I try ./gdnc at the command line (no X running), it
> doesn't do anything. When I do a "ps" after ./gdnc, there's a "[1] + ...done
> " line at the end of the list. I also tried putting "exec gdnc" in .xinitrc.
> Doesn't work either. How can I start gdnc?

Not sure what your problem is, but to get more information you could 
start gdnc with the -f option to stop it from forking. Does gdomap run 
on your machine? If not try to fix this first, otherwise use gdomap -N 
to see if gdnc has connected tot he gdomap.

Hope this helps

Fred