Can someone please help me get gdmchooser running, again?
Yuri Pankov
yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Fri Nov 9 21:28:17 PST 2007
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:12:20PM -0600, Lane Holcombe wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #1, compiled locally on Tue May 8
> 16:39:25 CDT 2007
>
> I was able to use gdmchooser on X.org 7.2, but after upgrade to 7.3 (and
> GDM 2.20.1) she says "no serving hosts were found" after scanning the
> local network
>
> When I first started this email, I got this from
>
> sockstat -l46 | grep 177
>
>
> lholcombessh-agent 30601 8 udp4 *:177 *:*
> lholcombegnome-sess 30587 8 udp4 *:177 *:*
> root Xorg 30570 8 udp4 *:177 *:*
> root gdm-binary 30569 8 udp4 *:177 *:*
> root gdm-binary 29955 8 udp4 *:177 *:*
>
> Now, after monkeying with it (including a few reboots), I get
>
> root gdm-binary 33486 8 udp4 *:177 *:*
>
> so it seems that gdm is listening on 177, but the chooser doesn't list
> the local system as an X server. Instead the chooser reports "no
> serving hosts were found"
>
> I can log in using the greeter, but I'd really like to use the chooser,
> as I've got several machines running X, and I'm too cheap to buy extra
> keyboards, and too lazy to move around the office to do my work :)
>
> gdm was compiled WITHOUT IPv6 support, and I've got
>
> ipv6_enable="NO"
>
> in /etc/rc.conf
>
> It's gotta be something simple, 'cause I didn't spend much time setting
> up the chooser originally. But I think I need an extra set of eyes to
> see what I'm not seeing :)
>
> Here is the uncommented part of /usr/local/etc/gdm/custom.conf:
>
> [daemon]
> Greeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmgreeter
> RemoteGreeter=/usr/local/libexec/gdmgreeter
>
> [security]
> AllowRemoteRoot=true
> DisallowTCP=false
> NeverPlaceCookiesOnNFS=false
> CheckDirOwner=false
>
> [xdmcp]
> Enable=true
>
> [gui]
>
> [greeter]
> IncludeAll=true
> GraphicalTheme=happygnome-list
> GraphicalThemeRand=true
> GraphicalThemes=circles/:happygnome-list/:happygnome
>
> [chooser]
>
> [debug]
> Enable=true
>
> [servers]
> 0=Standard
>
> [server-Standard]
> name=Standard server
> command=/usr/local/bin/X -audit 0
> chooser=false
> handled=true
> flexible=true
> priority=0
>
>
> Thanks for being an extra set of eyes!
>
> lane
Hi,
Lane, please check gdm related issues (IPv6 only) at
http://www.nabble.com/remaining-issues-with-gnome-2.20-t4721430.html
(taken from thread on gnome@). And sorry if it's not related to your
problem.
Yuri
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