From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20791 invoked by alias); 12 Nov 2003 02:46:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 20784 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2003 02:46:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rwcrmhc13.comcast.net) (204.127.198.39) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Nov 2003 02:46:11 -0000 Received: from linnie.riede.org (pcp04239971pcs.eatntn01.nj.comcast.net[68.39.173.54]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2003111202461001500b0127e> (Authid: wriede); Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:46:10 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:46:00 -0000 From: Willem Riede To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients Message-ID: <20031112024609.GI13753@linnie.riede.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: (from alexander.gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de on Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:37:12 -0500) X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00135.txt.bz2 List-Id: On 2003.11.11 11:37, Alexander Gottwald wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Woellert, Kirk D. wrote: > > > We are not running NAT. All firewalls are turned off completely (linux and > > Win). We are all on the same network segment, and all have the same IP scope > > (i.e. 137.x.x.x). > > > > I tried to get debug running as requested but, as a new linux user its not > > straightforward to figure out how to stop kdm/gdm/xdm or whatever RH9 uses, > > and restart it again. I looked at the post you cited and searched the net > > also. "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" returns command not found. I tried several > > iterations but no avail. So finally I did "xdm -debug 10 -no daemon", got a > > fatal server error, did some grep's and here is the followoing: > > maybe /etc/init.d./gdm stop I'm running cygwin/xfree (on w2k) to RedHat, and I've found you need to do 'telinit 3' followed by 'telinit 5' as root from a console to get gdm to restart. > > [debug] > > # This will enable debugging into the syslog, usually not neccessary > > # and it creates a LOT of spew of random stuff to the syslog. However it > > # can be useful in determining when something is going very wrong. > > Enable=false > > Set this to true. Most likely gdm will create a logfile in > /var/log/gdm That's right, that change is the only thing I had to do on the RedHat side. As to the log file, right again - here is what I have: [root@linnie root]# ls -ltr /var/log/gdm .... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 23 2003 winnie.riede.org:0.log .... Success, Willem Riede.