From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 13:03:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DB421065672 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:03:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de (mo-p00-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBBE68FC18 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:03:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 X-RZG-AUTH: :LWgJfE6Id/4Sm/WkdV0gEbKL+/p/UjmosA/b4BPf1Ida/LA6f2WjvdsA Received: from athena.laverenz.de (77-22-194-90-dynip.superkabel.de [77.22.194.90]) by post.strato.de (fruni mo33) (RZmta 18.15) with ESMTP id c06c16l13CCsKu ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:03:44 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15399127BD7; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:02:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10588-02; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:01:59 +0100 (CET) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 89EA0127BF3; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:01:59 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:01:59 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz To: Joe Marcus Clarke Message-ID: <20090203130159.GA9099@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: Joe Marcus Clarke , gnome@freebsd.org References: <20090119095444.GA10520@laverenz.de> <1232387275.33516.92.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090120082335.GA8747@laverenz.de> <1232472673.60296.68.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20090128142407.GA6144@laverenz.de> <1233438711.38049.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1233438711.38049.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM 2.24.1 and XDMCP X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:03:50 -0000 On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:51:51PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > - There are patches for gdm 2.24.1 that seem to solve the XDMCP-problem > > on Fedora 10. I'm not a programmer, but I tested the patches and > > managed to get gdm listen to UDP 177 again, but another problem > > came up with the patched version of gdm that I wasn't able to solve. > > So I was forced to give up for now. > > What problems did you see? I have tried to make the xdmcp-patch work from the files-subdirectory in x11/gdm. The patched gdm starts and actually listens on UDP 177 but as soon as you start it displays: gdm-binary[45684]: WARNING: Unable lookup numeric info: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution You get lots of these messages as soon as you try to connect via XDMCP, followed by a final "Illegal instruction". I guess that this xdmcp-patch collides with one of the FreeBSD-patches somewhere, otherwise it wouldn't work for Fedora?! Anyway, since I'm not a programmer, I don't know how to fix this at this time. If you want to take a look, I have put the new/changed patches online: http://www.laverenz.de/gdm-2.24-xdmcp-files.tar.gz To be honest, I think that this should rather be fixed upstream and that nobody should use gdm >= 2.22 in production until it works at least as well as 2.20 does. GDM 2.20 works fine with Gnome 2.24, so maybe you could re-add it to the ports tree for all people that want to use XDMCP. Thanks, Uwe