XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients
Pavel Rosenboim
pavelr@coresma.com
Tue Nov 11 16:54:00 GMT 2003
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
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