Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 12:01:29 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: Irving Popovetsky <irvingp@puck.nether.net>, Peter Schwenk <schwenk@voicenet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote xdm problems Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980504120129.00824100@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980503202856.A3873@puck.nether.net> References: <354CFE13.B83FB78B@voicenet.com> <19980503183312.A1996@puck.nether.net> <354CFE13.B83FB78B@voicenet.com>
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Have you looked at the debug option for xdm??
-debug debug_level
Specifies the numeric value for the DisplayMan-
ager.debugLevel resource. A non-zero value causes
xdm to print lots of debugging statements to the
terminal; it also disables the DisplayManager.dae-
monMode resource, forcing xdm to run synchronously.
To interpret these debugging messages, a copy of
the source code for xdm is almost a necessity. No
attempt has been made to rationalize or standardize
the output.
At 08:28 PM 5/3/98 -0400, Irving Popovetsky wrote:
>Okay, I removed it from /etc/ttys, and moved it over into /etc/rc.local
>(per the FAQ entry that I just found).
>
>for testing purposes, I even booted my NT box into FreeBSD-current (about
>a month-old build.... but it does SMP just fine) and tried running
>/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query watchtower (watchtower being my 486).
>
>It did the same thing. the session died after a minute, just as
>predicted, and immediatly the xdm logon screen popped back up.
>
>I dont understand why it starts up just fine, and then dies after a while.
>what could be going wrong?
>
>-Irving
>
>
>Peter Schwenk dared to say:
>
>> Irving:
>>
>> I've read that it's not a good idea to start xdm in the /etc/ttys file. I
>> start mine with a script in /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d. There is a setting,
>> local_startup, in the /etc/rc.conf file that lists this directory as one of
>> the directory that the bootup scripts search in for local startup scripts. I
>> don't know if moving the startup of xdm out of /etc/ttys will help you or
>> not, but I figured I'd add this tidbit.
>>
>> Irving Popovetsky wrote:
>>
>> > Howdy,
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > at first I suspected the NT machine to be at fault (naturally :), so I
>> > tried different X servers (but only x-win40 from starnet communications
>> > did xdm queries) ... but I managed to replicate the problem, so I'm
>> > wondering if the FreeBSD box is doing something funny.
>> >
>> > note: xdm is being started from /etc/ttys, like it is in the standard
>> > install:
>> > ttyv7 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
>> >
>> > any suggestions?
>> >
>> > Thanks a million,
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > -Irving Popovetsky
>> > ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant
>> > Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu
>> >
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>> > Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Schwenk
>> schwenk@voicenet.com
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>--
>
>-Irving Popovetsky
> ANS Communications - BigDial Operations Assistant
> Pioneer High School - Webmaster http://pioneer.citi.umich.edu
>
> grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange
>Land", by Robert A. Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally
>`to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok
>in fullness'. 1. To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes
>intimate and exhaustive knowledge.
>
>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
>
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