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Re: XDMCP broke


Harold L Hunt II wrote:

Andrew DeFaria wrote:

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

Andrew,

Sounds like a problem with your kdmrc file. Try commenting out the [Desktop0] section, or creating a backup of the original file and removing it from kdmrc.

I tried deleting the [Desktop0] line to no avail. Also, this still works at my job where I have, again, and XP box and a Linux box running Mandrake 9.1. In comparing the kdmrc files I see that the first line is [Desktop0] both at home and at work. Don't understand why it works at work and complains at home.

Not just the line... the whole section until the next [section] label.

Well again the odd thing is that this section appears in my kdmrc file at work and it works fine. I first got this stuff working at work between my Mandrake Linux 9.1 box and my Windows XP box. Then I performed similar configurations at home and again, as I said before, it was working fine. Then it broke and now it complains about this [Desktop0] section (yet it does not complain about this [Desktop0] section at work).



You will then have to restart kdm. I believe you can do that on Mandrake with (as root): 'service xdm restart' or perhaps 'service kdm restart'.

Actually I found that what get's run is mdkkdm and have killed it and restarted it, again, to no avail.

That doesn't actually work as you might think. kdm is started by a script that spawns a new kdm each time a user connects. You might have now moved your system into a sort of inconsistent state. I recommend restarting.

Well I will try restarting however when I started this there was no kdm process running other than the mdkkdm, which appears to be Mandrake's (mdk) version of kdm. Also, in the past I was able to kill and restart mdkkdm and get things working. It would be nice if man mdkkdm worked! :-(



Of course, you can always do 'init 3' followed by an 'init 5' about a minute later. Or, you can reboot.

I've even downloaded my working kdmrc file from work to no avail. I don't think I tried rebooting yet. Note that the differences between my home kdmrc and my work kdmrc seems to be minor and trivial - thinks like users shown on the login screen and who can reboot.


The README states:

The configuration files in this directory were automatically generated.
As the used algorithms are pretty dumb, the configuration may be broken.
This configuration consists of the following files:
- /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xaccess
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xwilling
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xresources
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset
- /usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession
- /usr/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc
This configuration was derived from the following files:
- /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
- /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
- /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
- /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
Have a look at the program <kdebase-sources>/kdm/kfrontend/genkdmconf
if you want to generate another configuration.

Kinda odd that /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc is generated from the same file! Also I don't have <kdebase-sources> with which to generate another configuration!

<kdebase-sources> isn't a program, it is the base of your path to KDE-Base programs. Thus, it could be /usr/bin/kdm/kfrontend/genkdmconf or /opt/kd3/bin/kdm/kfrontend/genkdmconf.

I realize that <kdebase-sources> is a path name and not a program. I took <kdebase-source> to mean the base of where you put the sources for kde. I have not installed the sources for kde! A search for a file named genkdmconf yeilds nothing!


BTW service [xdm|kdm|mdkkdm] restart all yeild: Cannot find [xdm|kdm|mdkkdm] service.

man service yeilds No manual entry for service



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