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noogie
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 Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:36 am Post subject: xdm crashing |
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I have a wierd xdm crash,
when I start xdm, I can login once (using x-win32 from my windoze desktop), and then when I close this session xdm will crash and not allow any more logins, and will get stuck in a loop of some sort sitting on 1.0 load average (this is a low load box),
Any Ideas?
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rac
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| Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Anything unusual about the kernel configuration or CFLAGS settings?
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noogie
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| Posted: Fri Sep 13, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, kernel config isnt anything out of the ordinary, and Im not using any optimizations in make.conf (CHOST, CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS)
It's wierd that it will work once, and then crash when the first session closes ... 
Thanks again. |
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lservaas
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| Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2002 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| I've got exactly the same problem but I don't have a clue how to fix it.. |
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noogie
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2002 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Good to know Im not alone at least! :p
If you figure it out let me know because Im stumped.
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noogie
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| Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2002 1:18 pm Post subject: |
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Heres another feature of this bug ....
*Sometimes* it will run ok, and not crash, as long as I disconnect and then do not try and reconnect for a long time (say a few minutes) ?
wierd. |
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SneaZ
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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same thing happens over here...
very strange |
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SneaZ
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pjp
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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Here is a similar thread. Unfortunately xdm is owned by xfree, which would be a fairly long recompile.
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SneaZ
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| Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2002 7:05 pm Post subject: |
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it almost seems like xdm only spawns one session and then
forgets to clean up or listen for more requests?
i need to restart xdm to get a new login prompt. |
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mortado
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| Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2002 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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4.2.1 + xdmcp and pretty much the same problem here. I login for the second time and xdm won't come up (it never does), ps ax on serial console shows something like
X [<defunct>]
xdm [<defunct>]
false [<defunct>] etc.
X and xdm can be killed and restarted but "false" goes nowhere. /bin/false somehow related to this havoc? I restart and stop xdm but /bin/false still hanging there defunct.
At this point stopping xdm no longer works as xdm never really fired up. The script said "ok", but it's not really there so I must rm /mnt/.init.d/started/xdm and start xdm one more time and ONLY NOW I can login for the 2nd time. |
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Sasun
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:14 am Post subject: |
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| mortado wrote: | 4.2.1 + xdmcp and pretty much the same problem here. I login for the second time and xdm won't come up (it never does), ps ax on serial console shows something like
X [<defunct>]
xdm [<defunct>]
false [<defunct>] etc.
X and xdm can be killed and restarted but "false" goes nowhere. /bin/false somehow related to this havoc? I restart and stop xdm but /bin/false still hanging there defunct.
At this point stopping xdm no longer works as xdm never really fired up. The script said "ok", but it's not really there so I must rm /mnt/.init.d/started/xdm and start xdm one more time and ONLY NOW I can login for the 2nd time. |
Hi,
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and comment out the following line:
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DisplayManager.willing: su nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
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and try again. I think that xdm is trying to start the Xwilling script as the user nobody, who has a login shell pointed to /bin/false.
Hope it will help. |
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noogie
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 3:29 am Post subject: |
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| Sasun wrote: | | mortado wrote: | 4.2.1 + xdmcp and pretty much the same problem here. I login for the second time and xdm won't come up (it never does), ps ax on serial console shows something like
X [<defunct>]
xdm [<defunct>]
false [<defunct>] etc.
X and xdm can be killed and restarted but "false" goes nowhere. /bin/false somehow related to this havoc? I restart and stop xdm but /bin/false still hanging there defunct.
At this point stopping xdm no longer works as xdm never really fired up. The script said "ok", but it's not really there so I must rm /mnt/.init.d/started/xdm and start xdm one more time and ONLY NOW I can login for the 2nd time. |
Hi,
Edit /etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config and comment out the following line:
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DisplayManager.willing: su nobody -c /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xwilling
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and try again. I think that xdm is trying to start the Xwilling script as the user nobody, who has a login shell pointed to /bin/false.
Hope it will help. |
Perfect!
thanks you so much!
NoogiE |
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SneaZ
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| Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 10:04 am Post subject: |
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thx thx thx thx,
am using kdm atm and that works fine too
but switching to xdm back again
(who needs KDE anyway, fluxbox is the one) |
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