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On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 20:42 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> Last month I started a thread on this list about setting up an |
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> arrangement so that my wife's computer running Red Hat 9 would be able |
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> to access my X server. I was referred to the Gentoo LTSP guide. I |
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> followed the guide and set it up. It worked great for about a week and |
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> then it just kinda stopped. Now whenever the command "X :1.0 -query |
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> bay" (baby is my computer running Gentoo) is issued all we get on my |
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> wife's computer is a blank screen with an X cursor (pointer) in the |
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> middle of it. The cursor can be moved around, but the screen remains |
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> blank otherwise. Since she is using RH9 (which reached its end-of-life |
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> years ago) and she never installs new software on it (a.k.a it never |
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> changes) and my Gentoo system is updated every night, I thought the |
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> problem must be with my computer. I went back through the LTSP guide |
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> and checked everything - it all looked right. I've checked the X |
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> windows log files on both machines, but didn't find anything. Could |
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> something else be causing this that's not mentioned in the guide? Any |
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> other advice on how to remedy this problem? |
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> -Michael Sullivan- |
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Nevermind. I missed something when I was going through the guide. |
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"Enable" in the [xdmcp] section of /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf was set to |
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false. Probably by etc-update. I guess I'd forgotten that I changed |
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that file... |
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