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On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Woellert, Kirk D. wrote:
> We are not running NAT. All firewalls are turned off completely (linux and
> Win). We are all on the same network segment, and all have the same IP scope
> (i.e. 137.x.x.x).
>
> I tried to get debug running as requested but, as a new linux user its not
> straightforward to figure out how to stop kdm/gdm/xdm or whatever RH9 uses,
> and restart it again. I looked at the post you cited and searched the net
> also. "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" returns command not found. I tried several
> iterations but no avail. So finally I did "xdm -debug 10 -no daemon", got a
> fatal server error, did some grep's and here is the followoing:
maybe /etc/init.d./gdm stop
> [debug]
> # This will enable debugging into the syslog, usually not neccessary
> # and it creates a LOT of spew of random stuff to the syslog. However it
> # can be useful in determining when something is going very wrong.
> Enable=false
Set this to true. Most likely gdm will create a logfile in /var/log/gdm
> XFree86.log.1 > [kdw@gaia log]# cd gdm > [kdw@gaia gdm]# ls > :0.log :0.log.1 :0.log.2 :0.log.3 :0.log.4 > [kdw@gaia gdm]# cat :0.log
These are all logfiles for the local xserver and do not contain information for your problem.
> [kdw@gaia log]# cat kdm.log > > Fatal server error: > Server is already active for display 0 > If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock > and start again.
This is a normal error. There was already a xserver running on display 0 (started by gdm) and kdm tried to start another which failed.
bye ago -- Alexander.Gottwald@s1999.tu-chemnitz.de http://www.gotti.org ICQ: 126018723
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