From owner-freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Thu May 26 10:17:23 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33759B4A602 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 10:17:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de) Received: from umail.aei.mpg.de (umail.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E44801DD7 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 10:17:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de) Received: from mailgate.aei.mpg.de (mailgate.aei.mpg.de [194.94.224.5]) by umail.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5232002C7 for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:09:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mailgate.aei.mpg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id AC01B406ADE for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:09:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (ahin1.aei.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.40]) by mailgate.aei.mpg.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB28406ADB for ; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:09:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from arc.aei.uni-hannover.de ([130.75.117.1]) by intranet.aei.uni-hannover.de (IBM Domino Release 9.0.1FP5) with ESMTP id 2016052612092916-88180 ; Thu, 26 May 2016 12:09:29 +0200 Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 12:09:29 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: xdm and chooser woes Message-Id: <20160526120929.d677f25281472909476510f5@aei.mpg.de> Organization: Max Planck Gesellschaft X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.2 (GTK+ 2.24.22; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 9.0.1FP5|November 22, 2015) at 26/05/2016 12:09:29, Serialize by Router on intranet/aei-hannover(Release 9.0.1FP5|November 22, 2015) at 26/05/2016 12:09:29, Serialize complete at 26/05/2016 12:09:29 X-TNEFEvaluated: 1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-PMX-Version: 6.0.2.2308539, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.2107409, Antispam-Data: 2016.5.26.100316 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIII, Probability=8%, Report=' HTML_00_01 0.05, HTML_00_10 0.05, MIME_LOWER_CASE 0.05, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_1100_1199 0, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS 0, SINGLE_URI_IN_BODY 0, __ANY_URI 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_FROM 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __HTTPS_URI 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __SINGLE_URI_TEXT 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END 0, __SUBJ_ALPHA_START 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __TO_NO_NAME 0, __URI_IN_BODY 0, __URI_NO_MAILTO 0, __URI_NO_WWW 0, __URI_NS , __URI_WITH_PATH 0' X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 10:17:23 -0000 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 ", but not going over the chooser on that machine with "X -indirect ". 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: Unfortunately, there is no solution mentioned there. Any hints would be greatly appreciated... cu Gerrit