Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:24:07 +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: <20090128142407.GA6144@laverenz.de> In-Reply-To: <1232472673.60296.68.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>
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31:13PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> This was discussed a lot of the GNOME development list. I even posed it
> to our test users. A lot of Linux users complained, but non of the
> FreeBSD users did. I think some Linux distributions are shipping
> gdm-2.20, but we never did any testing of 2.20 with 2.23/2.24. If you
> want to resurrect it, and test it out, we will consider re-adding the
> port as gdm220.
Ok, I have played around a bit:
- The last gdm 2.20 from ports compiles, installs and runs fine without
a problem (as far as I can tell by now, since my test machine is still
working on the libxcb-update). If I'm not the only one who is
dissatisfied with gdm 2.24, re-adding 2.20 would be nice.
To sum it up again:
- XDMCP-Chooser would be there again
- listening for XDMCP-connects would be working again
- installing themes would be possible again
- gdmsetup would be back
- 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.
Bug report:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=476061
Patches:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=327034
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=125201&action=view
thanks for listening. :)
Uwe
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