I'm writing here, because PCBSD is basically a customized FreeBSD 6.x.

I'm struggling with enabling XDMCP on that OS.
So far I made sure there is * in Xaccess file, and under [xdmcp] (in kdmrc)
I set Enable=true.

After writing sockstat -46 I see that port 177 is open, but after I write
X -query <pcbsd IP>
(in cygwin) the X starts but I don't see KDM login screen.

Packet sniffer, shows that X client sends QUERY requests, and kdm on PCBSD
doesn't answer to them.
The logs (kdm.log) looks ok to me...

I also tried to use xdm instead kdm (after few changes, default
configuration has XDMCP disabled), and I see a login screen, so probably
there isn't problem with client machine.

After googling for some time I couldn't find any helpful informaions (I
found few howtos, and I did everything what they suggested, event installed
a font server - which probably is not really needed, but KDM doesn't seem
to work).

Did anyone successfully enabled XDMCP on their FreeBSD? Maybe I forgot to
enable something? What ports kdm should open? I only see udp/177, while xdm
seems to spawn other processes that listen on more ports.

Please help :)
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Derek Kuliński / takeda wrote:

> Please help :)

Hi,
The only advice I could think of is install Free/Net/Open/BSD instead
of PCBSD. You will find that they have alot more flexible and have
better documentation and resources. I don't mean to sound rude or
arrogant but try a PCBSD newsgroup, your post is a little off topic.

Here are two urls' you may find usefull if you install FreeBSD;

[url]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics-daemons.html[/url]
- the Xaccess section

[url]http://freebsd.active-venture.com/handbook/x-xdm.html[/url]
- This site has an article dedicated to the X display manager

You may already know this but, google has a BSD dedicated search engine;

[url]http://www.google.com/bsd[/url]

If you have a look through the [email]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org[/email] archive you
might find some more information about XDMCP.

caleb.


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On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 16:24:38 +1100, caleb wrote:

> Hi,
> The only advice I could think of is install Free/Net/Open/BSD instead
> of PCBSD. You will find that they have alot more flexible and have
> better documentation and resources. I don't mean to sound rude or
> arrogant but try a PCBSD newsgroup, your post is a little off topic.

I'll try (in fact I PM one person who claimed on the forum that knows how
to make it work, so I'm waiting for reply).

Anyway, PC-BSD is FreeBSD, but with some additional stuff preinstalled, is
not a fork but just customized FreeBSD 6.0:

| %uname -v
| FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Nov 9 09:23:44 PST 2005 [email]root@PCBSD.loca[/email]lhost:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

| %pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/kdm
| /usr/local/bin/kdm was installed by package kdebase-3.4.3

> Here are two urls' you may find usefull if you install FreeBSD;
>
> [url]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/basics-daemons.html[/url]
> - the Xaccess section

I already read it, when I do those changes and start xdm instead of kdm, it
seems to work, so kdm is the one who makes problems.

> [url]http://freebsd.active-venture.com/handbook/x-xdm.html[/url]
> - This site has an article dedicated to the X display manager

Looks like it's page from FreeBSD handbook which I already read.
I was also looking for solutions on KDE website...

> You may already know this but, google has a BSD dedicated search engine;
> [url]http://www.google.com/bsd[/url]

Actually I spent a lot of time looking for solutions on google, although I
didn't used this specific BSD-only version... I'll give it another try.

> If you have a look through the [email]freebsd-questions@freebsd.org[/email] archive you
> might find some more information about XDMCP.

I will look, thanks.

Anyway, is here anyone who successfully enabled XDMCP on kdm?
I'm talking about FreeBSD this time.

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Derek Kuliński / takeda wrote:
> Anyway, is here anyone who successfully enabled XDMCP on kdm?

First; I don't use kdm, so this is purely from Google.
According to this web page (look for "login screenies"):
[url]http://braincore.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_braincore_archive.html[/url]

you will have to locate a file called kdmrc, and change a setting in
that file.

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On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:01:16 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> Derek Kuliński / takeda wrote:
>> Anyway, is here anyone who successfully enabled XDMCP on kdm?
>
> First; I don't use kdm, so this is purely from Google.
> According to this web page (look for "login screenies"):
> [url]http://braincore.blogspot.com/2005_04_01_braincore_archive.html[/url]
>
> you will have to locate a file called kdmrc, and change a setting in
> that file.

Yes I did that, and it looks like it's not enough, perhaps it's

I actually even tried to load second window and I wrote:
X -query localhost :1

And the result was exactly same as with X from cygwin...

PS. I also found this:
[url]http://www.mail-archive.com/kde-freebsd@freebsd.kde.org/msg00820.html[/url]

Although after changing this sysctl, when I try to connect kdm the client
is acting weird, (e.g. is restarting all the time) but at least I see that
it's communicating.

In the log I see this:
Jan 4 15:27:24 PCBSD kernel: pid 7170 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 4 15:27:24 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
manager process
Jan 4 15:27:25 PCBSD kernel: pid 7186 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 4 15:27:25 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
manager process
Jan 4 15:27:27 PCBSD kernel: pid 7200 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 4 15:27:27 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
manager process
Jan 4 15:27:28 PCBSD kernel: pid 7214 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 4 15:27:28 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
manager process
Jan 4 15:27:30 PCBSD kernel: pid 7228 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Jan 4 15:27:30 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
manager process

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 15:57:29 -0800, Derek Kuliński / takeda wrote:

> In the log I see this:
> Jan 4 15:27:24 PCBSD kernel: pid 7170 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> Jan 4 15:27:24 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
> manager process
> Jan 4 15:27:25 PCBSD kernel: pid 7186 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> Jan 4 15:27:25 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
> manager process
> Jan 4 15:27:27 PCBSD kernel: pid 7200 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> Jan 4 15:27:27 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
> manager process
> Jan 4 15:27:28 PCBSD kernel: pid 7214 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> Jan 4 15:27:28 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
> manager process
> Jan 4 15:27:30 PCBSD kernel: pid 7228 (kdm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
> Jan 4 15:27:30 PCBSD kdm[7036]: Unknown session exit code 0 (sig 11) from
> manager process

Looks like that what I did was the final solution, but thanks to my luck I
just encountered buggy version of KDE:
[url]http://frontrangebsd.org/pipermail/kde-freebsd/2005-November/011750.html[/url]

I have: kdebase-3.4.3, and bug seems to be fixed in kdebase-3.4.3_1:
[url]http://www.freshports.org/x11/kdebase3[/url]

I'll try compile new version and see if that fixes the problem.

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On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:26:09 -0800, Derek Kuliński / takeda wrote:

> I'll try compile new version and see if that fixes the problem.

Yep, updating KDE solved the problem.

Anyone knows if there is a way to make kdm bind only to IPv4 interface, so
I won't need to specify this settings?

Is there a way to use XDMCP over TCP not udp?
For example if I would want to tunnel connection through ssh...

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Derek Kuliński / takeda wrote:
> Yep, updating KDE solved the problem.

Good!

> Anyone knows if there is a way to make kdm bind only to IPv4 interface, so
> I won't need to specify this settings?

I don't know about kdm, but X (as in 'Xorg' or 'startx') has a parameter
'-nolisten' where '-nolisten inet6' will do what you want.
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:12:49 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

>> Anyone knows if there is a way to make kdm bind only to IPv4 interface, so
>> I won't need to specify this settings?
> I don't know about kdm, but X (as in 'Xorg' or 'startx') has a parameter
> '-nolisten' where '-nolisten inet6' will do what you want.

kdm is a replacement for xdm...

It actually spawns X server when someone connects, so this doesn't apply...
I'll look on KDE website maybe I'll find an answer.

Anyway, since I primarily use IPv4 maybe net.inet6.ip6.v6only=0 is not such
a bad solution...

Anyway, thanks for help.

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