Bug 1225901

Summary: Xorg needs to be built with --enable-listen-tcp
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2015-05-28 12:01:55 UTC 
Apparently in 1.17 the X server was changed to, by default, start requiring an explicit -listen tcp to enable listening on tcp socket. This is an incompatible change from 7.1 which will probably affect customers.  It also breaks GDM.  Unfortunately, we don't even really have a great migration story, since -listen isn't a valid flag in earlier versions of Xorg, so there's no good way of knowing whether or not passing (or not passing) -listen will break the X server.

We need to pass --enable-listen-tcp to configure when building the X server to prevent widespread doom , apocalypse-esque ruin and universal demise.
Comment 1 Adam Jackson 2015-05-28 14:22:47 UTC 
Yup.