XDMCP broke

[Harold L Hunt II]

Andrew,

Sounds like a problem with your kdmrc file.  Try commenting out the 
[Desktop0] section, or creating a backup of the original file and 
removing it from kdmrc.

You will then have to restart kdm.  I believe you can do that on 
Mandrake with (as root): 'service xdm restart'   or perhaps  'service 
kdm restart'.

Of course, you can always do 'init 3' followed by an 'init 5' about a 
minute later.  Or, you can reboot.

Harold



Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> The following situation was working:
> 
> I have Windows XP running 1.3.22 and XFree85-xser 4.2.0-28. I also have 
> another machine with Mandrake 9.1 and had configured it to host XDMCP 
> sessions. I created a little script:
> 
> rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix
> xdmcp_server=earth
> 
> XWin                    \
>  -fullscreen           \
>  -screen 0 1600 1200   \
>  -once                 \
>  -query $xdmcp_server  &
> 
> When I run this script in the past I would get a fullscreen X server 
> running and be presented with a login session. Now it just starts the X 
> server and no XDMCP session starts.
> 
> Looking over on the Mandrake system I find the following in 
> /var/log/mdkkdm.log:
> 
> Apr 25 11:49:07 mdkkdm_config[1540] error: Unrecognized section name 
> [Desktop0] at /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:1
> 
> The beginning of /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc looks like:
> 
> [root@earth root]# head /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
> [Desktop0]
> BackgroundMode=Flat
> BlendBalance=100
> BlendMode=NoBlending
> ChangeInterval=60
> Color1=33,68,156
> Color2=192,192,192
> CurrentWallpaper=0
> LastChange=0
> MinOptimizationDepth=1
> 
> Any ideas?
>