From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27530 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2003 16:54:43 -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 27523 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2003 16:54:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO exchange.coresma.com) (212.179.37.66) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 16:54:42 -0000 Received: from coresma.com (PAVEL [10.12.0.163]) by exchange.coresma.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id WQBKK0RS; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:49:54 +0200 Message-ID: <3FB11450.1040208@coresma.com> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:54:00 -0000 From: Pavel Rosenboim User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031028 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00129.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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 > -- > Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de > http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723 >