Re: XWin works on Win2K but not on some WinXP clients

["Woellert, Kirk D." <kirk dot woellert at ngc dot com>]

I'm NOT giving up. This is now my mission in life (when I'm not doing what
I'm supposed to be doing). The guy with Win2K can login into the linux box
again (must not have rebooted the box or something for my last post). WinXP
clients no dice. I physically changed the the runlevel on the linux box by
invoking:

# init 3
gdm -debug 10 -no daemon

2nd line invokes the display manager, which by default puts the system back
in run level 5? Hence, that's why I didnt need to explicity change to run
level 5 as I erroneously did in previous posts? Also explains why the system
would display the message "display 0 already active, launching display 1"?

greps taken following that command:

[root@gaia log]# ps -ef |grep xdm
root      4039     1 12 08:10 ?        00:00:01 xdm
root      4043  3646  0 08:11 pts/0    00:00:00 grep xdm
[root@gaia log]# ps -ef |grep kdm
root      4045  3646  0 08:11 pts/0    00:00:00 grep kdm
[root@gaia log]# ps -ef |grep gdm
root      3282  3252  0 07:44 tty1     00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -debug
10 -nodaemon
root      3320  3282  0 07:44 tty1     00:00:00 /usr/bin/gdm-binary -debug
10 -nodaemon
root      3321  3320  0 07:44 ?        00:00:02 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth
/var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
root      4047  3646  0 08:11 pts/0    00:00:00 grep gdm
[root@gaia log]#


[root@gaia log]# ls
boot.log    cups     ksyms.4    messages.1    rpmpkgs           secure.3
up2date.3     xdm-errors
boot.log.1  dmesg    ksyms.5    messages.2    rpmpkgs.1         secure.4
up2date.4     XFree86.0.log
boot.log.2  fax      ksyms.6    messages.3    rpmpkgs.2         spooler
uucp          XFree86.0.log.old
boot.log.3  gdm      lastlog    messages.4    rpmpkgs.3         spooler.1
vbox          XFree86.1.log
boot.log.4  httpd    maillog    mysqld.log.1  rpmpkgs.4         spooler.2
vsftpd.log    XFree86.1.log.old
canna       iptraf   maillog.1  mysqld.log.2  sa                spooler.3
vsftpd.log.1  zebra
cron        kdm.log  maillog.2  mysqld.log.3  samba             spooler.4
vsftpd.log.2
cron.1      ksyms.0  maillog.3  mysqld.log.4  scrollkeeper.log  squid
vsftpd.log.3
cron.2      ksyms.1  maillog.4  news          secure            up2date
vsftpd.log.4
cron.3      ksyms.2  mailman    pgsql         secure.1          up2date.1
wtmp
cron.4      ksyms.3  messages   privoxy       secure.2          up2date.2
wtmp.1
[root@gaia log]#

Excerpt from XFree86.0.log
(**) DevInputMice: Buttons: 5
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "DevInputMice" (type: MOUSE)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(II) DevInputMice: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
AUDIT: Fri Nov 14 07:44:42 2003: 3321 X: client 4 rejected from local host
[root@gaia log]#

I deleted all the log files from the /var/log/gdm folder. They were a lot of
them, and they didnt seem to be changing from one day to the next. Following
deletion, of these files I asked the Win2K guy to login, and then I tried to
login, and no new 0:log files were generated in this sub-directory.
Apparently, individual login attempts are not logged here.

 I need more specific guidance from the forum. I keep pasting the log entrys
for the gdm into my mail, and they look the same - debug mode or not. Are
these the log entries you are looking for? How do I discern which entry
corresponds to the Win2K attempt vice the WinXP attempt?