Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 21:07:22 -0400 From: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote xdm problems Message-ID: <19980504210722.B11808@puck.nether.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504145414.23827m-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Mon, May 04, 1998 at 02:56:14PM -0700 References: <19980503183312.A1996@puck.nether.net> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504145414.23827m-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Aye me. No, the problem was not with me doing a startx instead of X (I was originally doing this from an NT box anyway). I did check the error log .... and lets just say that it was about 800k worth of junk. apparently the symlynk between X and the xserver had dissapeared .... and it didnt like that. I added the link, (I dont understand why it does this, because I run xdm with the -nodaemon flag anyway) and now remote sessions seem to be working fine! (note: the knock-on-wood factor is probably *very* high right now :) Thanks for all the help and ideas, my brain just needed a kick in the arse :) -Irving Doug White dared to say: > On Sun, 3 May 1998, Irving Popovetsky wrote: > > > At home, I have networked together my a 486 with 32 megs of ram > > running FreeBSD-stable, which doesnt do anything but run PPP and ipfw to > > my NT box. I got the idea to set up my NT box with eXceed(from > > hummingbird communications), which is arguably the best commercial > > X-server package available for windows, to run an xdm query over to the > > FreeBSD box. > > > > well, everything works great and dandy.... except for one problem. the > > xsession dies after about a minute or two .... usually without even an > > error message. I have tried with different wm's, everything from fvwm to > > afterstep to kde ..... and I tried messing with the SYSV stuff (SHM, etc) > > .... but that makes it die even faster sometimes. > > You aren't trying to run xinit in .xinitrc or something equally silly? A > laptop we have at the office was doing the same thing, and monitoring xdm > found that it was trying to attach to the x server twice and was getting > refused. Culprit: Running `startx -- -query server'. I needed to run 'X > -query server'. > > So: Turn on debugging in xdm and stick it on the console so you can watch > the error messages go by. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > -- -Irving Popovetsky ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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