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RE: XDMCP to Solaris Hangs on specific W2k systems, not all


Patrick,

One question for starters: can you start a local Cygwin/XFree86 session
(without XDMCP) on the machines that will not connect with XDMCP?

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf Of Patrick Jaromin
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:50 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: XDMCP to Solaris Hangs on specific W2k systems, not all
>
>
> I'm posting this to the newsgroup after what I believe was an
> exhaustive search
> of the archives...my apologies if I've missed a previously posted
> solution.
>
> I've got 3 W2k systems attempting to connect to a couple Solaris 8 boxes.
> One system connected immediately, without any fuss using the basic:
> XWin.exe -query <sun box> -from <w2k system>
>
> When I attempt this with the other two, the program hangs shortly after
> displaying the black screen and hourglass cursor. Only right-click-close
> or task manager will kill the app.
>
> After reading a few posts and the FAQ (on Sun's lack of 24-bit
> color depth
> support),
> I noticed that the two that didn't work have video cards that
> only support
> 8, 16 and 24 bit color depth
> -- while the working system supported and was set to 32 bit.
>
> Changing the other two systems to 16 or 8 bit didn't help....same hang.
>
> Replacing the video card on one with an NVidia with 32-bit support didn't
> work either...same hang.
>
> I also attempted the -fp parameter even though it didn't appear to be a
> font issue.
>
> The logs I'm familiar with (through previous postings) don't seem to
> provide much information...and
> look nearly identical in both the working and hanging case...with, of
> course the major exception that
> the log stops after the hang while the working system logs
> additional info.
>
>
> The XWin.log file looks like this: (with the -audit option)
>
> ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens
> winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 1280 h 1024
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits
> per pixel
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1024
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found TOP auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar
> winAdjustForAutoHide - FwinCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing
> screen resources
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - Not changing video mode
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 5120
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> BPRGB 8 d 32
> winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32
> winRandRInit ()
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> winScreenInit () - returning
> winCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing screen resources
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed
> winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f
> winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - Not changing video mode
> winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 5120
> winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff
> BPRGB 8 d 32
> winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32
> winRandRInit ()
> winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap ()
> winScreenInit () - returning
> :22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3
> connected from IP
> 192.168.2.27 port 34622
>    Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3
> connected from IP
> 192.168.2.27 port 34623
>    Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3
> connected from IP
> 192.168.2.27 port 34624
>    Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3
> connected from IP
> 192.168.2.27 port 34625
>    Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3
> connected from IP
> 192.168.2.27 port 34626
>    Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected
> AUDIT: Fri Feb  8 09:22:17 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3
> connected from IP
> 192.168.2.27 port 34627
>    Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58
>
>
> and /var/dt/Xerrors looks the same (until the hang) for the
> working machine
> and the ones
> that don't:
>
> X Error of failed request:  86
>    Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
>    Serial number of failed request:  10
>    Current serial number in output stream:  12
> X Error of failed request:  86
>    Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
>    Serial number of failed request:  10
>    Current serial number in output stream:  12
> X Error of failed request:  86
>    Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
>    Serial number of failed request:  10
>    Current serial number in output stream:  12
> X Error of failed request:  86
>    Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
>    Serial number of failed request:  10
>    Current serial number in output stream:  12
> X Error of failed request:  86
>    Major opcode of failed request:  51 (X_SetFontPath)
>    Serial number of failed request:  10
>    Current serial number in output stream:  12
>
>
>
> Is there anything else I can try? Did I miss something or are there other
> logs to check?
>
> Thank you.
>
> - Patrick
>
>
>


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