From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 2 8:29:36 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A16D37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:29:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from glamredhel.hayholt.org (hayholt.org [195.18.102.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0CD43EC5 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 08:29:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@hayholt.org) Received: from eldar.hayholt.org (unknown [192.168.0.2]) by glamredhel.hayholt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35FE8AF11; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:29:17 +0000 (WET) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:28:44 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger To: "Brent J. Ermlick" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? In-Reply-To: <20030102154608.GA73870@bermls.oau.org> Message-ID: <20030102172635.N177@eldar.hayholt.org> References: <20030102111401.GA65231@bermls.oau.org> <20030102123215.I207@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102131257.GA4945@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030102145019.G199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102141916.GA59713@bermls.oau.org> <20030102152110.I199@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102143903.GA71301@bermls.oau.org> <20030102161006.M177@eldar.hayholt.org> <20030102154608.GA73870@bermls.oau.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:18:48PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: > . . . > > so i assume X is working on the server now (i don't have a monitor on the > > server) but i'm not getting a login prompt on my Exceed :( > > > > the xdm.log is empty so there are no errors reported by xdm. > > xdm is started properly from /etc/ttys > > > > i also rechecked the xdm config files (Xaccess, Xsession, xdm-config and > > others) and they are still correct. > > Whoops. I thought that the X server and the client were on the same machine. > I apologize. > > The X server is the machine with the monitor. If there are two > different machines, then it looks as if the problem is with the > Exceed. That is where you need to look for locks and protection > issues. Make sure that you have run the xhost command (or the > equivalent on the Exceed) so that the Exceed allows clients running > on the FreeBSD machine (such as xdm and xterm) to display on the > screen of the Exceed. > I've tried reinstalling exceed but that didn't help. I disabled the xhosts so that it will allow any client to display but that doesn't help either. I've also tried using X-Win32 on this system (and on my laptop) but that doesn't work either. It's very odd..... Marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message