dbus, hal over xdmcp?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:49:10PM -0600, Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Anton Shterenlikht<mexas at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> >> 5.  And add this line right below it:
> >>
> >>       exec gnome-session
> >
> > I see. So your users don't have $HOME/.xsession files?
> 
> Not that I know of.
> 
> >> 7.  Edit /etc/ttys so that the ttyv8 line has on instead of off so it
> >> looks like:
> >>
> >>       ttyv8   "/usr/local/bin/xdm -nodaemon"  xterm   on  secure
> >
> > I start xdm manually. I was under the impression the above line
> > wouldn't work on a headless box.
> 
> Works fine on my headless box.
> 
> > Few more questions, if you please:
> >
> > What architecture are your XDMCP server and the desktops?
> > Do the users start X with -query <ip of the XDMCP server>?
> 
> server is 7.2-RELEASE-amd64.  Clients are HP/NeoWare e90 thin clients.
>  I don't know the specs exactly.
> 
> The thin clients use their built-in gui, but from my mac I can connect
> fine with "X -query (ip) -once"

I think I finally got this working,
after half a year of trying.

I replaced alpha 6.4-stable with ia64 8.0-beta2.
All xdm, dbus and hal config options were replicated
from the alpha configuration. This would suggest
that hal, dbus and XDMCP are not interacting
correctly under 6.4 alpha. 

Now I can get kazekahase to work.

many thanks to all who contributed to this thread.

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