XDMCP Core 3

[Peter Backlund]

tor 2005-01-20 klockan 11:20 +0000 skrev Jonathan Andrews:
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 08:14, Mark McLoughlin wrote: 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 22:43 +0000, Jonathan Andrews wrote:
> > > Is XDMCP, remote X bust in core 3 ?
> > 
> > 	I was using it not so long ago and it was working fine.
> > 
> > > I've tried the gui configuration for tool gdm. The machine has no
> > > firewall enabled - all I get the "gdm_child_action: Aborting display
> > > jonspc:1" in the log ?
> > 
> > 	I'm suprised that's the only message you get - a glance at the code
> > suggests if you're getting this error message (which is from the master)
> > you should be getting another message from the slave.
> If found my problem, its a name resolver issue (thank you Mr Cox :-D )
> I think email is on a go-slow, please look back if you have time.
> 
> Some comments on this and a few other things
> 
> 1) gdm doesn't have a process itself, it runs from init - but when gdm
> is started it seems to undergo a name change to "gdm-binary" without
> being owned by gdm or anything called gdm. As a result its not possible
> to cleanly restart gdm ? ie no "/etc/init.d/gdm restart". Am I missing
> something here or this a bit naff ? 


You can simply kill gdm by

pkill gdm-binary

(or your preferred method of killing processes). init should respawn gdm
automatically.

/Peter