Thursday, August 25, 2005

Solaris: Failed to allocate internet-domain X11 display socket.

If you should find the message in the title in your /var/adm/messages file on your SUN box running Solaris 9, welcome to the club.
It seems that Patch '118305-04' is the reason. From what I gathered so far, SUN is looking into the problem.
There are reports that forcing sshd to operate IPv4 only, sometimes solves the problem. It made no difference on my machine.
Given that, I don't have a solution, yet. I just wanted you to know that you are not alone in this.
:-(