Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:56:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote xdm problems Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980504145414.23827m-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980503183312.A1996@puck.nether.net>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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