I could never get debian to run on my old sun blade 100 and had to go to sparc version of openbsd.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd < [email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if somebody could give me some advice on how best to report this > bug. I'm certain that fixing it is way beyond my ability, and at present > I'm not even confident in my ability to describe it succinctly. > > I've got a newly-built SPARC Wheezy/testing system replacing one of my > low-priority development systems, it's actually an Ultra-2 which until > recently was running Solaris. I've used the Wheezy+KDE CD, and have added > GDM because of its reliable XDMCP handling. Let's call this system A. > > I can log into A reliably from its own console, and I can log into it > using Xnest running on itself with either the -query or -indirect option. I > can also get a graphical session using VNC. In combination, I think these > demonstrate that XDMCP is working and handing control to GDM, and that GDM > is correctly handing control to KDE or XFCE. > > Under any other conditions, attempting to establish a (graphical) login > from another machine- let's call this B- crashes the X server running on B. > I've tried this from a "Switch user" session on SPARC Etch KDE, from the > initial login on an x86 Squeeze laptop, from Xnest running on the same > system, and from XMing on Windows. > > This is a hard fault, entirely reproducible. I think the next thing I need > to try is reverting to kdm- presumably this is some variant of > dpkg-reconfigure (i.e. what comes after that)? > > -- > Mark Morgan Lloyd > markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk > > [Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-sparc-REQUEST@lists.**debian.org<[email protected]> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/**k66vhf$u1h$1@pye-srv-01.** > telemetry.co.uk<http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]> > >
