From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12415 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2003 05:19:05 -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 12408 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2003 05:19:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO sys05.mail.msu.edu) (35.9.75.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2003 05:19:04 -0000 Received: from [207.179.68.222] (helo=msu.edu) by sys05.mail.msu.edu with asmtp (Exim 4.10 #3) (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) id 1ALyGW-000LLE-00 for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:19:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3FB9ABC6.4020601@msu.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:19:00 -0000 From: Harold L Hunt II User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Can't type in login window via XDMCP References: <658B168FF59ED4119FC200508BF354BB0AF7A25B@exgate.tek.com> In-Reply-To: <658B168FF59ED4119FC200508BF354BB0AF7A25B@exgate.tek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00229.txt.bz2 List-Id: Jae, jae.ellers@exgate.tek.com wrote: > Hi folks, > First thanks to all who contribute. Xfree on Cygwin has been great. > However, I was seeing 2Gb+ XWin.log files and felt I needed to update. SO I > updated today and now I can't login via XDMCP. Here's the command line I > use: > > c:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\xwin -query zephyr.mydomain.com -from 192.168.1.4 > > The system I'm logging into is a RH ES2.1 server. I've been using the same > setup for months now. > > The problem is that I can't type in the login window. Nothing appears. The > only thing I can see getting thru is the Caps Lock, which I find very > strange. > > Even if I start xwin and then twm and an xterm I can't type in the xterm. > > I do see a message in /tmp/XWin.log: > (EE) Unable to locate/open config file > InitOutput - Error reading config file I am not sure I understand your problem. You are, of course, clicking in the text boxes where you type the user name and password, right? What sort of OS is the remote machine running? > Do I need a config file? I haven't used one before. No, you do not need a config file. > I found this message: > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-10/msg00303.html and tested > http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/XWin-4.3.0-20-Test01.exe.bz2 > and I can login. So it looks like the problem is in the new WaitFor.c code. Actually, I really doubt it is a problem with WaitFor.c. The changes were made in 4.3.0-16 on or around 2003/10/04: http://xfree86.cygwin.com/devel/server/changelog.html The keyboard focus problem referred to in that mailing list message was actually due to problems with shared Xt/Xaw/Xaw6/LessTif libraries. That has just now been fixed. You could try updating your installation tomorrow (when the new packages hit the mirrors) and see if it fixes your problem; it might. Harold