Re: XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Kirk,

You confirmed that you are using "gdm" as your display manager.  That 
means that gdm is the only properly configured display manager on your 
system.  So, the test you have below for xdm is irrelevant.

Lets step back and have you reboot, do a telinit 3, then do the same 
thing you did for xdm with gdm instead.  Please report the results of that.

I know this may be frustrating, but you are learning a lot of things 
about generic X administration... you'll be a lot better off after 
struggling through this and actually getting this fixed than you will be 
if you get frustrated and give up.  So, please, take your time with this 
if you need to so that you don't give up.  Let me know if you want to 
take a break for a couple of days.

Harold

Woellert, Kirk D. wrote:

> Something has changed, after changing run levels and setting debug mode for
> XDM,
> telinit 3
> xdm -debug 10 -nodaemon
> I did a reboot and now the Win2K box won't connect anymore (checkboard
> pattern, no login). I have attached the linux gdm.conf file and included the
> xdm-config file. Also is a log entry from the /var/log/gdm directory.
>
>
> Confirmed GDM is the *dm running:
>
> [kdw@gaia ~]$ ps -ef |grep gdm
> root      1056     1  0 09:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
> root      1107  1056  0 09:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary
> -nodaemon
> root      1108  1107 12 09:46 ?        00:58:04 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth
> /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
> kdw       2480  2458  0 17:38 pts/0    00:00:00 grep gdm
> [kdw@gaia ~]$
>
> ----------------------------xdm-config
> ! $XConsortium: xdm-conf.cpp /main/3 1996/01/15 15:17:26 gildea $
> ! $XFree86: xc/programs/xdm/config/xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.6 2000/01/31 19:33:43
> dawes Ex
> DisplayManager.errorLogFile:    /var/log/xdm-errors
> DisplayManager.pidFile:         /var/run/xdm-pid
> DisplayManager.keyFile:         /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
> DisplayManager.servers:         /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
> DisplayManager.accessFile:      /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess
> DisplayManager.willing:         su nobody -c /etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling
> ! All displays should use authorization, but we cannot be sure
> ! X terminals will be configured that way, so by default
> ! use authorization only for local displays :0, :1, etc.
> DisplayManager._0.authorize:    true
> DisplayManager._1.authorize:    true
> ! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console.
> DisplayManager._0.setup:        /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> DisplayManager._0.startup:      /etc/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
> DisplayManager._0.reset:        /etc/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
> !
> DisplayManager*resources:       /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
> DisplayManager*session:         /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession
> DisplayManager*authComplain:    false
>
>
> ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests
> ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm
> !DisplayManager.requestPort:    0
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> [root@gaia gdm]# cat :0.log
>
> XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Red Hat Linux release: 4.3.0-2)
> Release Date: 27 February 2003
> X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
> Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.20-3bigmem i686 [ELF]
> Build Date: 27 February 2003
> Build Host: porky.devel.redhat.com
>
>         Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
>         to make sure that you have the latest version.
> Module Loader present
> OS Kernel: Linux version 2.4.20-20.9smp
> (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat
> Linu
> x 3.2.2-5)) #1 SMP Mon Aug 18 11:32:15 EDT 2003
> Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>          (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
> (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Thu Nov 13 17:51:04 2003
> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"