Re: running X w/serial console (XDCMP)
Matthew French said:
> On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 18:52, nate wrote:
>> nate said:
>> > I was wanting to run gdm w/XDCMP on my ultra 1 which has a serial
>> console, I can get the GDM login screen but cannot get past that,
>>
>> I guess it's impossible to run gdm w/o a local X server.
>
> Erm, my headless server runs gdm just fine. Not surprisingly X does not
> start (no keyboard), but I can connect over the network without any
> issues.
>
> However, you will need to edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and do teh following:
> 1. set [xdcmp]:Enable to true
> 2. comment out all the lines under [servers]
>
> AFAIK that is all I had to do to get GDM running.
just tried that, purged gdm and reinstalled to get the default
config, did those 2 changes and when I try to connect to gdm
syslog spits out:
Jun 6 10:59:30 sparky gdm[16252]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the
XKeepsCrashing script
Jun 6 10:59:30 sparky gdm[16252]: Failed to start X server several times
in a short time period; disabling display :0
I removed xserver-common which provides /usr/X11R6/bin/X
restarted gdm and when I try to connect syslog spits out:
Jun 6 11:01:20 sparky gdm[16315]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found:
/usr/bin/X11/X
Jun 6 11:01:20 sparky gdm[16317]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found:
/usr/bin/X11/X
Jun 6 11:01:23 sparky gdm[16319]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found:
/usr/bin/X11/X
Jun 6 11:01:26 sparky gdm[16321]: gdm_server_spawn: Xserver not found:
/usr/bin/X11/X
Jun 6 11:01:26 sparky gdm[16312]: deal_with_x_crashes: Running the
XKeepsCrashing script
Jun 6 11:01:26 sparky gdm[16312]: Failed to start X server several times
in a short time period; disabling display :0
*sigh*
thanks for the quick reply
nate
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