On Thu, 7 Jul 2011, Brodie, Kent wrote:
Hm! Xming looks promising for out site, since it's lightweight. I do want
to run XDMCP sessions to redhat servers, but I'd having an interesting issue as
I tried it today:::
I fire up xming, I get the nice pretty redhat login screen - SO FAR, SO GOOD...
But then I log in and then.. black. That's it.
I cannot determine what's happening; I have all firewalls turned off to for
testing.
I like x-win32, but we have a lot of users and our budgets are being pressured
to trim back....
If anyone has any insight,,....
In our environment, this can be caused by a variety of issues. Let me see which
of them I remember:
1. Home directory over quota or otherwise out of space - X sessions like to
write temp files into your home directories, so if there's no space, you'll get
nothing.
2. Bad .xinitrc file - Our typical one is transitioning from Solaris to Linux;
our defaults were written for Solaris in ages past, so the default window
manager call in .xinitrc is to openwin... which doesn't exist on Linux :).
3. Bad window manager config files - Pick your poison: gnome, kde, xfce, etc.
If the config files contain something invalid, the window manager might have
trouble and give you that lovely black login screen or dump you out completely.
That should cover most of the cases of what you're seeing.
- Chris
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Walter Bagehot
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