Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:09:29 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: xdm and chooser woes Message-ID: <20160526120929.d677f25281472909476510f5@aei.mpg.de>
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Hi all, I have a very old-school indirect xdm/chooser list for a couple of machines (Linux and FreeBSD). This works fine with the chooser running on a Linux box. The chooser on a FreeBSD box comes up with the chooser list, but after selection I do not get a login window. Instead, I get the message "Cannot connect to xdm" in xdm.log and after some blinking and flashing of the screen I get the chooser back. This behaviour is always the same, no matter if I choose the local (FreeBSD machine) or a different (remote) one. I can get a login window from a FreeBSD machine just fine when contacting it directly with "X -query <host>", but not going over the chooser on that machine with "X -indirect <host>". As it works fine using the chooser from a Linux box, it looks like something is broken between the chooser and the xdm login on my FreeBSD machine. Using Google, I found someone describing exactly the same issue a couple of years ago: <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/5904/>; Unfortunately, there is no solution mentioned there. Any hints would be greatly appreciated... cu Gerrit
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