From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13453 invoked by alias); 11 Nov 2003 16:37:14 -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 13433 invoked from network); 11 Nov 2003 16:37:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO meg.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de) (134.109.132.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Nov 2003 16:37:13 -0000 Received: from hedwig.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.173] helo=mailbox.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de) by meg.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AJbVw-0006b1-DX for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:37:12 +0100 Received: from herkules.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de ([134.109.132.156] ident=[ydUWmiOwe7k4aoNimdj/7yZ0N4jj+M2D]) by mailbox.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1AJbVw-0007oo-CX for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:37:12 +0100 Received: from localhost (goal@localhost) by herkules.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hABGbCX19139 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:37:12 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: herkules.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de: goal owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 16:37:00 -0000 From: Alexander Gottwald To: "'cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com'" Subject: Re: XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: --- Start der SpamAssassin 2.60 Textanalyse (0.0 Punkte) Fragen an/questions to: Postmaster TU Chemnitz --- Ende der SpamAssassin Textanalyse X-Scan-Signature: 9d07cb7fdf33a498459ed645a19e7d68 X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00126.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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 > [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