Re: XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients

[Pavel Rosenboim <pavelr@coresma.com>]

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

In RedHat systems xdm/kdm/gdm is started by init (as configured in 
/etc/inittab) so the only way to stop it is by switching to runlevel 3 -
/sbin/init 3


> 
>  > [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
> 
>  > XFree86.log.1
>  > [kdw@gaia log]# cd gdm
>  > [kdw@gaia gdm]# ls
>  > :0.log  :0.log.1  :0.log.2  :0.log.3  :0.log.4
>  > [kdw@gaia gdm]# cat :0.log
> 
> These are all logfiles for the local xserver and do not contain
> information for your problem.
> 
>  > [kdw@gaia log]# cat kdm.log
>  >
>  > Fatal server error:
>  > Server is already active for display 0
>  >         If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
>  >         and start again.
> 
> This is a normal error. There was already a xserver running on display
> 0 (started by gdm) and kdm tried to start another which failed.
> 
> bye
>         ago
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