Matthew French said: > On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:52, nate wrote: >> nate said: >> > I was wanting to run gdm w/XDCMP on my ultra 1 which has a serial >> console, I can get the GDM login screen but cannot get past that, >> >> I guess it's impossible to run gdm w/o a local X server. > > Erm, my headless server runs gdm just fine. Not surprisingly X does not > start (no keyboard), but I can connect over the network without any > issues. > > However, you will need to edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and do teh following: > 1. set [xdcmp]:Enable to true > 2. comment out all the lines under [servers] > > AFAIK that is all I had to do to get GDM running.
just tried that, purged gdm and reinstalled to get the default config, did those 2 changes and when I try to connect to gdm syslog spits out: Jun 6 10:59:30 sparky gdm[16252]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the XKeepsCrashing script Jun 6 10:59:30 sparky gdm[16252]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 I removed xserver-common which provides /usr/X11R6/bin/X restarted gdm and when I try to connect syslog spits out: Jun 6 11:01:20 sparky gdm[16315]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: /usr/bin/X11/X Jun 6 11:01:20 sparky gdm[16317]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: /usr/bin/X11/X Jun 6 11:01:23 sparky gdm[16319]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: /usr/bin/X11/X Jun 6 11:01:26 sparky gdm[16321]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found: /usr/bin/X11/X Jun 6 11:01:26 sparky gdm[16312]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the XKeepsCrashing script Jun 6 11:01:26 sparky gdm[16312]: Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display :0 *sigh* thanks for the quick reply nate
