Richard, There should be a xdm-specific log file in /var/log/. Is there anything in that file that might indicate why the socket creation failed?
Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Slack/390 I am attempting to start XDM and I am getting the following, [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/etc/X11/xdm# xdm -debug 9 DisplayManager.errorLogFile/DisplayManager.ErrorLogFile value /var/log/xdm-errors DisplayManager.daemonMode/DisplayManager.DaemonMode value true DisplayManager.pidFile/DisplayManager.PidFile value /var/run/xdm-pid DisplayManager.lockPidFile/DisplayManager.LockPidFile value true DisplayManager.authDir/DisplayManager.authDir value /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm DisplayManager.autoRescan/DisplayManager.AutoRescan value true DisplayManager.removeDomainname/DisplayManager.RemoveDomainname value true DisplayManager.keyFile/DisplayManager.KeyFile value /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-keys DisplayManager.accessFile/DisplayManager.AccessFile value /etc/X11/xdm/Xaccess DisplayManager.exportList/DisplayManager.ExportList value DisplayManager.randomFile/DisplayManager.RandomFile value /dev/mem DisplayManager.prgndSocket/DisplayManager.PrngdSocket value /tmp/entropy DisplayManager.prngdPort/DisplayManager.PrngdPort value 0 DisplayManager.greeterLib/DisplayManager.GreeterLib value /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/libXdmGreet.so DisplayManager.choiceTimeout/DisplayManager.ChoiceTimeout value 15 DisplayManager.sourceAddress/DisplayManager.SourceAddress value false DisplayManager.willing/DisplayManager.Willing value su nobody -c /etc/X11/xdm/Xwilling read 4096 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/messages" read 4096 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/syslog" read 4096 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/debug" read 0 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/kern.log" read 0 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/daemon.log" Created chooser socket -1 xdm error (pid 215): chooser socket creation failed, errno 97 creating socket to listen on port 177 of address :: xdm error (pid 215): XDMCP socket creation failed, errno 97 read 4096 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/messages" read 4096 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/syslog" read 4096 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/debug" read 0 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/kern.log" read 0 bytes from entropy source "/var/log/daemon.log" Nothing left to do, exiting I've updated my /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config file to comment out the last line and Xaccess to allow any host. If these updates are not suggested for security reasons please remember I'm just trying to get this up and running under Hercules. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
