Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 55826
Cannot use my RH box as an Xterminal anymore with KDM 3.0.0
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:38:04 EDT
Description of Problem: I cannot use My RedHat 7.2 box as an Xterminal (It worked with 7.1) How Reproducible: Just modify the files as mentionned below (My machine is called Lorient): [ted@lorient /etc]$ diff inittab inittab.org 57,58c57 < x1:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon < x2:5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -indirect lorient --- > x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon [ted@lorient xdm]$ diff Xaccess Xaccess.org 40c40 < * #any host can get a login window --- > # * #any host can get a login window 58c58 < #* CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser --- > * CHOOSER BROADCAST #any indirect host can get a chooser 66c66 < %hostlist lorient brest toulon plnpc --- > #%hostlist host-a host-b 68c68 < * CHOOSER %hostlist # --- > #* CHOOSER %hostlist # [ted@lorient xdm]$ diff xdm-config xdm-config.org 28c28 < ! DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 --- > DisplayManager.requestPort: 0 [ted@lorient xdm]$ diff Xservers Xservers.org 13c13 < #:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X --- > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X I do not use Gdm but Kdm: [ted@lorient sysconfig]$ more desktop DESKTOP="KDE Actual Results: Grey screen. I do not get the XDMCP chooser window. Expected Results: A grey screen WITH the XDMCP chooser window, where I can choose among 4 machines: Brest, Lorient, Toulon and Plnpc Additional Information: I suspect a security problem but I don't know what has been changed between 7.1 and 7.2 in this respect.
I replaced /ec/X11/prefdm by /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm in inittab and it worked From that I discovered that KDE 2.2 introduced a new kdmrc file (/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc), so now I am sure it has something to do with KDM I tried to modify the kdmrc file to obtain what I wanted but without success. I don't know what to do now. Daniel
I don't consider this to be a bug, but rather a misconfiguration issue. xdm/kdm/gdm all work fine for me in my test environment. If you need help configuring xdm/kdm/gdm and XDMCP, etc. please subscribe to the xpert@xfree86.org mailing list, or one of the Red Hat mailing lists. There is also an XDMCP-HOWTO which you might find helpful. Hope this helps.
Hi! I had finally succeeded in fixing this with RedHat 7.2 and KDE 2.2.2 Since then, I replaced KDE 2.2.2 by KDE 3.0.0 (a new kderc file). I have also installed RedHat 7.3 on an other machine and with the Xaccess, inittab... files CORRECTLY configured for an XDMCP request (tested succesfully with KDE 2.2.2), I end up, again, with a grey screen using KDM. I modified kdmrc according to this. It is equivalent to what I did for KDE 2.2.2 (and it worked then....). Do you know what has been changed from KDE 2.2.2 to KDE 3.0.0? Could you please help me to find the right flag to get XDMCP working again? Thanks in advance bash-2.05a# pwd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm bash-2.05a# diff kdmrc kdmrc.org 64c64 < DaemonMode=false --- > #DaemonMode=false 96c96 < #Enable=false --- > Enable=false 98c98 < Port=177 --- > #Port=177 bash-2.05a#
Sorry, but bugzilla is not a technical support forum, it is a bug tracking database. If you require assistance configuring XDMCP, KDE, KDM, or any other issues, please use the mailing lists previously mentioned for technical support.
Hello, I am very much aware of the fact that bugzilla is not a technical forum but considering that few months ago there was a bug in the redhat KDE RPMS (for 2.1.x if I recall correctly) that was disabling the XDMCP request whatever the configuration was and considering that the changes in the configuration files I did for KDE 3.0.0 (RH73) are EXACTLY the same than the ones I did for KDE 2.2.2, I don't really know if the problem is : configuration or bug.... Daniel PS: If you want, I can open a bug report for RH7.3 and kdebase-3.0.0-12 (kdmrc is in this package)