Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:01:59 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GDM 2.24.1 and XDMCP Message-ID: <20090203130159.GA9099@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <1233438711.38049.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> 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>
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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
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