Bug 96394

Summary: XQuartz ignores nolisten_tcp
Product: XQuartz Reporter: Carson Gaspar <carson>
Component: New BugsAssignee: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <jeremyhu>
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: 2.7.9 (xserver-1.17.4)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Mac OS X (All)   
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Description Carson Gaspar 2016-06-05 19:04:24 UTC
Despite setting nolisten_tcp to false, XQuartz refuses to create a TCP socket since upgrading to 2.7.9.

carson:arthas 0 $ defaults read org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 nolisten_tcp
0

carson:arthas 0 $ sudo defaults read org.macosforge.xquartz.X11 nolisten_tcp
0

carson:arthas 0 $ netstat -na | grep 6000
<nothing>
Comment 1 Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia 2016-06-05 19:28:07 UTC
The default value changed in the server, so an update was needed to the startx script.  It was fixed in 2.7.10_beta2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 95379 ***

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