I'm posting this to the newsgroup after what I believe was an exhaustive search of the archives...my apologies if I've missed a previously posted solution.
I've got 3 W2k systems attempting to connect to a couple Solaris 8 boxes. One system connected immediately, without any fuss using the basic: XWin.exe -query <sun box> -from <w2k system> When I attempt this with the other two, the program hangs shortly after displaying the black screen and hourglass cursor. Only right-click-close or task manager will kill the app. After reading a few posts and the FAQ (on Sun's lack of 24-bit color depth support), I noticed that the two that didn't work have video cards that only support 8, 16 and 24 bit color depth -- while the working system supported and was set to 32 bit. Changing the other two systems to 16 or 8 bit didn't help....same hang. Replacing the video card on one with an NVidia with 32-bit support didn't work either...same hang. I also attempted the -fp parameter even though it didn't appear to be a font issue. The logs I'm familiar with (through previous postings) don't seem to provide much information...and look nearly identical in both the working and hanging case...with, of course the major exception that the log stops after the hang while the working system logs additional info. The XWin.log file looks like this: (with the -audit option) ddxProcessArgument () - Initializing default screens winInitializeDefaultScreens () - w 1280 h 1024 _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAdjustVideoModeShadowDDNL () - Using Windows display depth of 32 bits per pixel winAdjustForAutoHide - Original WorkArea: 0 0 996 1024 winAdjustForAutoHide - Taskbar is auto hide winAdjustForAutoHide - Found TOP auto-hide taskbar winAdjustForAutoHide - Found LEFT auto-hide taskbar winAdjustForAutoHide - FwinCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing screen resources winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - Not changing video mode winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 5120 winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 32 winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32 winRandRInit () winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winScreenInit () - returning winCloseScreenShadowDDNL () - Freeing screen resources winDetectSupportedEngines () - Windows NT/2000 winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Allowing PrimaryDD winDetectSupportedEngines () - DirectDraw4 installed winDetectSupportedEngines () - Returning, supported engines 0000001f winSetEngine () - Using Shadow DirectDraw NonLocking winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - Not changing video mode winAllocateFBShadowDDNL () - lPitch: 5120 winInitVisualsShadowDDNL () - Masks 00ff0000 0000ff00 000000ff BPRGB 8 d 32 winLayerCreate () - dwDepth 32 winRandRInit () winCreateDefColormap () - Deferring to fbCreateDefColormap () winScreenInit () - returning :22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 connected from IP 192.168.2.27 port 34622 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 connected from IP 192.168.2.27 port 34623 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 connected from IP 192.168.2.27 port 34624 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 connected from IP 192.168.2.27 port 34625 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 connected from IP 192.168.2.27 port 34626 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:16 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 disconnected AUDIT: Fri Feb 8 09:22:17 2002: 1616 XWin.exe: client 3 connected from IP 192.168.2.27 port 34627 Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: 58 and /var/dt/Xerrors looks the same (until the hang) for the working machine and the ones that don't: X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 10 Current serial number in output stream: 12 X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 10 Current serial number in output stream: 12 X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 10 Current serial number in output stream: 12 X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 10 Current serial number in output stream: 12 X Error of failed request: 86 Major opcode of failed request: 51 (X_SetFontPath) Serial number of failed request: 10 Current serial number in output stream: 12 Is there anything else I can try? Did I miss something or are there other logs to check? Thank you. - Patrick
