OT: remote X-session to alpha produces errors.

["Thomas W." <kirk@colinet.de>]

Hi all,

I know, that this is a little off-topic here - I hope you don't mind...
I run Debian/potato on my Alpha, with only a serial console instatlled.
I use xdm to provide a login to a remote system, running Debian/slink
( mostly upgraded towards potato ) and XFree 4.0. Currently ( for
experimenting ), the Xsession just starts an xterm. Using that, I start
my window manager of choice, fvwm2.

Everything works fine, while I keep working on the machine. If I stop,
just leaving the screen as it is, the fvwm2 crashes, giving the follwing
message:
      XIO:  fatal IO error 60 (Connection timed out) on X server "eyes:0.0"
      after 674 requests (657 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

This happens after some 15-20 minutes of inactivity. I can restart fvwm2
again manually, using the xterm, which keeps running as well as the Xserver.

I am *definitely* not an X-pert ;-)

Any clue would be helpful.

Thanx, and again my apologies for the OT-post.

Regards,
Thomas Weyegraf




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Thomas Weyergraf                                                kirk@colinet.de
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