From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 14:58:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07581 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07159 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:56:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA24124; Mon, 4 May 1998 14:56:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 4 May 1998 14:56:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Irving Popovetsky cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: remote xdm problems In-Reply-To: <19980503183312.A1996@puck.nether.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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