From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 7 04:36:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C1716A417 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 04:36:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E96613C4B3 for ; Wed, 7 Nov 2007 04:36:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=localhost.joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-kukur.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.34) id 1IpcGT-0000Dy-Va for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:11:42 -0500 MailScanner-NULL-Check: 1195013574.91301@FebjnjeVr9RQNPbHr0HwkQ Received: from localhost.joeandlane.com (localhost.joeandlane.com [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.joeandlane.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id lA74Cqwb005090 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:12:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: (from lholcombe@localhost) by localhost.joeandlane.com (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lA74CqlV005084 for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 22:12:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.joeandlane.com: lholcombe set sender to lane@joeandlane.com using -f From: Lane Holcombe To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:12:52 -0600 Message-Id: <1194408772.4462.17.camel@localhost.joeandlane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec791155cb5a06fbb3a5f857b61aa597a5e8350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Cc: Subject: X not listening on 177 after upgrade to 7.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:36:23 -0000 Please help, I'm completely out of my league. I know this is mostly an Xorg question, but trying to get help from that group is ... not so easy... I've had the gdmchooser working for several months, now. But recently I updated X from 7.2 to 7.3 and X is no longer even listening on port 177: sockstat -l46 | grep 177 shows nothing I see Xorg listening on port 6000, but I seem to recall that xdm was listening on 177 before the upgrade. Or maybe it was gdm-binary, but certainly it was the default port 177, not port 6000. gdm is started by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gdm and it runs the greeter just fine. But it is the chooser that I need, since I periodically need to access this machine from the local network or from remote vpn or access remote machines from this one. I'm running 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD, built from source in May, so the configuration in /etc did not change. But it appears that my /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config and /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf have been overwritten with defaults and I can't find a backup version that works. I expect that if I could get xdm to listen then I could figure out gdm, again. But I've been researching and tweeking all day and can't seem to make it work. I thought it was as simple as commenting out the last line in the default xdm-config: ! SECURITY: do not listen for XDMCP or Chooser requests ! Comment out this line if you want to manage X terminals with xdm ! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 But that does not make a difference, even after reboot. Your helpful suggestions and insight are appreciated. lane