Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 171490
Cannot get gnome-desktop after entering username/password via XDMCP broadcast
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:08 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1) Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-desktop-2.2.2-1 gnome-desktop-devel-2.2.2-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Not esay! It depends on a number of Exceed users on server 2. 3. Additional info:
When we log into the linux server with Exceed over XDMCP broadcast and enter username/password, we don't get GNOME desktop but just blank screen forever until we execute "service xinetd restart" on the linux server or restart gdm. We don't have a problem for first 14 ~ 16 days every time we restart a linux server, but after this period, we must restart xinetd every hour otherwise noone can use GNOME desktop. It is very annoying. I'm not sure what is wrong with our linux environment. We are currently using: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 5) Linux lsfnode0 2.4.21-32.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue May 17 17:46:36 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux gnome-desktop-2.2.2-1 gnome-session-2.2.2-3 [xdmcp] Enable=true HonorIndirect=true MaxPending=10 MaxPendingIndirect=4 MaxSessions=9999 MaxWait=15 MaxWaitIndirect=15 DisplaysPerHost=9999 Port=177 Thanks.
*** Bug 171489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Can you attach an strace -f to the xinetd when the problem starts occuring? That might help us narrow down precisely what's going wrong.
Created attachment 120579 [details] strace -f xinetd
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