Cygwin-xfree installation problems

Wed Jul 11 07:54:00 GMT 2001

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Uwe Menzel wrote:

> Alexander Gottwald wrote:
> > 
> > Please check the xdm logfile (/var/log/xdm-errors) 
> 
> Unfortunately, the folder "log" doesn't exist within "var", although
What OS is running on the alpha?
> this is specified in the configuration file.
> This is the configuration file:
Set the entry errorLogFile to a file in your logdir.

> 
> ! $Xorg: xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:54:17 cpqbld Exp $
> !
> !
> !
> !
> ! $XFree86: xc/programs/xdm/config/xdm-conf.cpp,v 1.7 2001/01/17 23:45:24 dawes Exp
> $
> !
> DisplayManager.errorLogFile:	/var/log/xdm-errors
> DisplayManager.pidFile:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
> DisplayManager.keyFile:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
> DisplayManager.servers:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers
> DisplayManager.accessFile:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
> DisplayManager.willing:		su nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
> ! All displays should use authorization, but we cannot be sure
> ! X terminals will be configured that way, so by default
> ! use authorization only for local displays :0, :1, etc.
> DisplayManager._0.authorize:	true
> DisplayManager._1.authorize:	true
> ! The following three resources set up display :0 as the console.
> DisplayManager._0.setup:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> DisplayManager._0.startup:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
> DisplayManager._0.reset:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
> !
> DisplayManager*resources:	/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
> DisplayManager*session:		/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
> DisplayManager*authComplain:	false
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > or start xdm in debugmode (xdm -debug 10).
> 
> I did this and got the output listed below.
> I can't see any reason for the error message:
> "Can't creat auth file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-001344"
> The path exists and has all permissions ...
> 
> This is the complete output after calling xdm -debug 10:
> 
> 
> 
> DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value  /var/log/xdm-errors
> DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true
> DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-pid
> DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true
> DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm
> DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true
> DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true
> DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-keys
> DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess
> DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value 
> DisplayManager.randomFile/DisplayManager.RandomFile value /dev/mem
> DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so
> DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15
> DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false
> DisplayManager.willing/DisplayManager.Willing value  su nobody -c
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
> Found new display:  :0  local /usr/X11R6/bin/X

Is the alpha configured for X? If not, please comment the line in 
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers starting with ":0 local". This will 
disable starting a local xserver on the alpha server.

> StartDisplay :0
> DisplayManager._0.serverAttempts/DisplayManager._0.ServerAttempts value 1
> DisplayManager._0.openDelay/DisplayManager._0.OpenDelay value 15
> DisplayManager._0.openRepeat/DisplayManager._0.OpenRepeat value 5
> DisplayManager._0.openTimeout/DisplayManager._0.OpenTimeout value 120
> DisplayManager._0.startAttempts/DisplayManager._0.StartAttempts value 4
> DisplayManager._0.pingInterval/DisplayManager._0.PingInterval value 5
> DisplayManager._0.pingTimeout/DisplayManager._0.PingTimeout value 5
> DisplayManager._0.terminateServer/DisplayManager._0.TerminateServer value false
> DisplayManager._0.grabServer/DisplayManager._0.GrabServer value false
> DisplayManager._0.grabTimeout/DisplayManager._0.GrabTimeout value 3
> DisplayManager._0.resetSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 1
> DisplayManager._0.termSignal/DisplayManager._0.Signal value 15
> DisplayManager._0.resetForAuth/DisplayManager._0.ResetForAuth value false
> DisplayManager._0.authorize/DisplayManager._0.Authorize value  true
> DisplayManager._0.authComplain/DisplayManager._0.AuthComplain value  false
> DisplayManager._0.authName/DisplayManager._0.AuthName value MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> DisplayManager._0.authFile/DisplayManager._0.AuthFile value 
> SetLocalAuthorization :0, auth MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> GenerateAuthorization MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
> Got 0xa016e68 (18 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1)  33 30 48 32 5d 56 22 5e 06 4a 7a 20 18 18 37
> 14
> Can't creat auth file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-001344
> xdm error (pid 1344): Cannot open server authorization file
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-001344
> StartServer for :0
> Server Started 1156
> '/usr/X11R6/bin/X' 
> _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root
> 
> Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> display manager paused til SIGUSR1
> DisplayManager._0.resources/DisplayManager._0.Resources value 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xresources
> DisplayManager._0.xrdb/DisplayManager._0.Xrdb value /usr/X11R6/bin/xrdb
> DisplayManager._0.setup/DisplayManager._0.Setup value 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> DisplayManager._0.startup/DisplayManager._0.Startup value 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole
> DisplayManager._0.reset/DisplayManager._0.Reset value 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole
> DisplayManager._0.session/DisplayManager._0.Session value 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession
> DisplayManager._0.userPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value
> :/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ucb
> DisplayManager._0.systemPath/DisplayManager._0.Path value
> /etc:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/ucb
> DisplayManager._0.systemShell/DisplayManager._0.Shell value /bin/sh
> DisplayManager._0.failsafeClient/DisplayManager._0.FailsafeClient value
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
> DisplayManager._0.userAuthDir/DisplayManager._0.UserAuthDir value /tmp
> DisplayManager._0.chooser/DisplayManager._0.Chooser value
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/chooser
> Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
> After XOpenDisplay(:0)
> OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
> waiting for server to start 0
> Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
> After XOpenDisplay(:0)
> OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
> waiting for server to start 1
> Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
> After XOpenDisplay(:0)
> OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
> waiting for server to start 2
> Shutting down entire manager
> Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
> After XOpenDisplay(:0)
> OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
> waiting for server to start 3
> Before XOpenDisplay(:0)
> After XOpenDisplay(:0)
> OpenDisplay failed 111 (Connection refused) on ":0"
> waiting for server to start 4
> giving up on server
> xdm error (pid 1344): server open failed for :0, giving up
> 

I can't see any remote host connecting to xdm, only see xdm trying to 
connect to the local display :0, which is not configured and did not start
up.

bye
	ago

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