Re: XDM problems

1999-06-06 Thread Adam Rice
Quoting Chris Flipse ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Currenty running XFree86 3.3.3.1 using the s3v server. Try using the SVGA server instead... it's supposed to be less buggy. From what I've read, the s3v server will be going away in future anyway. Having said that, I get intermittent crashes on exitting

Re: XDM problems

1999-06-06 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Chris Flipse wrote > I've got an issue with the *dm programs > I had thought it was just an issue with xdm, but this just happened with > kdm as well... > > I can log in through *dm, and everything works fine while I'm working in > X. However, occasio

Re: XDM problems

1999-06-05 Thread Chris Flipse
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 08:20:11PM +0100, Philip Armstrong wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Chris Flipse wrote: > I can log in through *dm, and everything works fine while I'm working in > X. However, occasionally, when I log out, instead of bringing up the > login app agai

Re: XDM problems

1999-06-05 Thread Philip Armstrong
On Sat, Jun 05, 1999 at 03:06:52PM -0400, Chris Flipse wrote: > I can log in through *dm, and everything works fine while I'm working in > X. However, occasionally, when I log out, instead of bringing up the > login app again, I get a series of red and black vertical stripes on my > monitor, and m

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I use this as root: # xauth -f ~srivasta/.Xauthority -i extract - $DISPLAY | xauth merge - manoj -- "Therefore, one should never admit a garrison larger than one's own forces, especially when composed of barbarians." Polybios, writing in the mid-2nd century BC (paraphr

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Kevin Sivits
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Jan Echternach wrote: >On 14 November 1997, Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Another workaround is: >> >> cp /home/USER/.Xauthority /root/ > >Or to set XAUTHORITY to point to the user's .Xauthority. I've done this >with my "xterm -e root", and it works pretty

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: : On 13 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: [ snip ] : : > BTW, why don't you add a Reply-To: header? There is no host : > 3dillusion.3dillusion.com. : : damn.. I've had this problem since I installed BIND. My email address : used to only include my domain by def

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Jan Echternach
On 14 November 1997, Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another workaround is: > > cp /home/USER/.Xauthority /root/ Or to set XAUTHORITY to point to the user's .Xauthority. I've done this with my "xterm -e root", and it works pretty well (unfortunately I can't tell you how exactly I

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Sten Anderson
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 13 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > You can turn off this security by typing `xhost +localhost' at an > > xterm prompt; thenceforth during that X session any user on the local > > computer will be able to run clients. > > hmm.. I'll try that, maybe t

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Paul Miller
On 13 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > AUDIT: Thu Nov 13 23:27:51 1997: 975 X: client 3 rejected from local host > > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 > > This sort of message generally means that someone not authorized to > connect to your X server tr

Re: xdm problems...

1997-11-14 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > AUDIT: Thu Nov 13 23:27:51 1997: 975 X: client 3 rejected from local host > Auth name: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 This sort of message generally means that someone not authorized to connect to your X server tried to connect anyway. Since the host was the