Re: XDMCP

[Matthew K Poer <matthewpoer@gmail.com>]

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Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> 
>>> One more thing:  There is a reported but unfixded bug in kdm in
>>> Debian/Ubuntu going back a long way which is causing some xdmcp
>>> configurations to fail when they really are ok.  If you look in your
>>> logs
>>> you'll see reports of kdm_greet getting memory corruption if you are
>>> getting this problem.  As a result of this problem I recently migrated a
>>> bunch of thin client servers to use gdm instead of kdm.
>>
>> You didn't specify which log but I didn't find any such errors in either
>> kdm.log or Xorg.0.log, nor did I find any other related errors in the
>> log.
>> Maybe I'll try switching to xdm just to see.
> 
> It depends on how you have syslog configured.  I recommend running a
> debug log to catch all the info.  You can grep for the following error
> coming from kdm_greet:
> 
> "Internal error: memory corruption detected"
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rob
> 
I will just input that I was having a big issue with KDM and XDMCP with
Etch a few days ago. The solution I found was to switch the host (X
Client, the one doing the work) to GDM instead of KDM. Then it just sort
of worked. I still do not know why KDM didn't.

The X Server runs KDM and connects to the GDM X Client (XDMCP Server?)
just fine.

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