Sluggers, I've asked this on the LTSP list but no one seems to know so I thougt I'd ask here as the sluggers generally come through on these things.
I've got a RH7.2 server with a couple of X-terminals (diskless boot, linux boxes) hanging off it. When the X-terminals boot, X comes up fine (grey screen, "X" cursor) but the GDM login dialog fails to appear. If I stop and re-start X on the server (init 3, init 5) then the GDM logins appear on the X-terminals. However after I log out on the X-term (or I reboot them) the GDM login fails to appear. The X-terminals have this message repeating every few seconds on their console "client 1 rejected from IP 192.168.9.1 AUTH name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1" (The server is 192.168.9.1) After a half a dozen re-trys, X aborts and is respawned, but the messages continue to appear. init 3 then init 5 on the server then brings the gdm dialog up on the X-terminals. (or kdm or xdm) The server is running X and it is spawned via the inittab entry x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon The gdm.conf file on the server has the network xdmcp enabled I.E [xdmcp] Enable=true HonorIndirect=true MaxPending=4 MaxPendingIndirect=4 MaxSessions=16 MaxWait=30 MaxWaitIndirect=30 Port=177 Does anyone have any suggestions as to what has gone wrong? This was all working fine but obviously something has been trashed involving the XAuthority, or xauth but unfortunately I don't understand enough about this aspect of X to know where to start looking. Thanks for any ideas Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
