Problems with XDMCP and gnome 2.26 on 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed May 13 19:16:43 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 13:08 -0600, Nathan wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Nathan <nathan.stocks at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Nathan <nathan.stocks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Nathan <nathan.stocks at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hi, this is my first time with FreeBSD. I'm trying to replace an old
> >>> linux server for a thin-client lab with a brand-new FreeBSD one on a
> >>> nice amd opteron box.
> >>>
> >>> I can't get XDMCP working with either xdm or gdm. I spent all day
> >>> yesterday (with two coworkers) reading, googling, and trying
> >>> everything we read or could think of to get either login manager
> >>> working. They both work on the local console, but the configurations
> >>> for enabling XDMCP don't seem to work. Then on #freebsd this morning
> >>> someone pointed me to this recent email in this mailing list's
> >>> archive:
> >>>
> >>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1241929056.88553.29.camel
> >>>
> >>> Everything I currently have installed was straight off the DVD
> >>> (literally. I just installed the "X-Kern-Developer" distribution, and
> >>> then installed gnome2 off the DVD). What do I need to do to use those
> >>> patches referenced in the email above? Do I need to update ports,
> >>> then download those patches, and then upgrade all of gnome from ports
> >>> somehow? Or can I just download the patches and update gdm?
> >>>
> >>> I really don't care whether we use xdm or gdm, but I can't get either
> >>> one working using the freebsd handbook or any other documentation I
> >>> can find. (though I have gotten both working on several Linux
> >>> distros)
> >>>
> >>> This is a fresh install, so I'll mess with stuff trying to figure it
> >>> out in the meantime, and I can always wipe and reinstall, but I would
> >>> really appreciate some guidance here!
> >>>
> >>> I'll post any progress I make to the list. I'll be working on this
> >>> for about the next 9 hours straight.
> >>
> >> Okay, I did "portsnap fetch" and "portsnap extract" and "portsnap
> >> update" and then:
> >>
> >> * put "Makefile" from the patches[1] into /usr/ports/x11/gdm
> >> * put the rest of the patches[1] into /usr/ports/x11/gdm/files
> >>
> >> [1] http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/gdm/
> >>
> >> Then I ran "make build" with the default config options from
> >> /usr/ports/x11/gdm -- and hit the following error:
> >>
> >> -------------------------------
> >> ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> >> ===> Found saved configuration for gdm-2.26.1_1
> >> => gdm-2.26.1.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome2.
> >> => Attempting to fetch from
> >> ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/sources/gdm/2.26/.
> >> gdm-2.26.1.tar.bz2 100% of 2467 kB 53 kBps 00m00s
> >> ===> Extracting for gdm-2.26.1_1
> >> => MD5 Checksum OK for gnome2/gdm-2.26.1.tar.bz2.
> >> => SHA256 Checksum OK for gnome2/gdm-2.26.1.tar.bz2.
> >> ===> Patching for gdm-2.26.1_1
> >> ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for gdm-2.26.1_1
> >> ===> gdm-2.26.1_1 depends on executable: zenity - found
> >> ===> gdm-2.26.1_1 depends on executable: gmake - found
> >> ===> gdm-2.26.1_1 depends on file:
> >> /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/dmxproto.pc - found
> >> ===> gdm-2.26.1_1 depends on file: /usr/local/libdata/pkgconfig/dmx.pc - found
> >> ===> gdm-2.26.1_1 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/intltool-extract - not found
> >> ===> Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/intltool-extract in
> >> /usr/ports/textproc/intltool
> >> ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
> >> => intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/gnome.
> >> => Attempting to fetch from
> >> ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/ftp.gnome.org/sources/intltool/0.40/.
> >> intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2 100% of 137 kB 75 kBps
> >> ===> Extracting for intltool-0.40.6
> >> => MD5 Checksum OK for gnome/intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2.
> >> => SHA256 Checksum OK for gnome/intltool-0.40.6.tar.bz2.
> >> ===> intltool-0.40.6 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 - found
> >> ===> Patching for intltool-0.40.6
> >> ===> intltool-0.40.6 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 - found
> >> ===> intltool-0.40.6 depends on file:
> >> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/mach/XML/Parser.pm - found
> >> ===> intltool-0.40.6 depends on executable: gmake - found
> >> ===> intltool-0.40.6 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/perl5.8.9 - found
> >> ===> intltool-0.40.6 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found
> >> ===> Configuring for intltool-0.40.6
> >> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c -o root -g wheel
> >> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
> >> checking for gawk... no
> >> checking for mawk... no
> >>
> >> [snip]
> >>
> >> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../common
> >> -DAUTHDIR=\"/var/gdm\" -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\"
> >> -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share\" -DDMCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/dm\"
> >> -DGDMCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/gdm\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\"
> >> -DLIBEXECDIR=\"/usr/local/libexec\" -DLOGDIR=\"/var/log/gdm\"
> >> -DSBINDIR=\"/usr/local/sbin\"
> >> -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/local/share/locale"\"
> >> -DGDM_XAUTH_DIR=\"/var/run/gdm\"
> >> -DGDM_SESSION_DEFAULT_PATH=\"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin\"
> >> -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0
> >> -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
> >> -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/hal
> >> -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> >> -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DLANG_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/sysconfig/i18n\"
> >> -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_SA_LEN -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -MT
> >> gdm-manager.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/gdm-manager.Tpo -c -o gdm-manager.o
> >> gdm-manager.c
> >> gdm-manager.c:36:1: warning: "DBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE" redefined
> >> <command-line>: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
> >> mv -f .deps/gdm-manager.Tpo .deps/gdm-manager.Po
> >> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../common
> >> -DAUTHDIR=\"/var/gdm\" -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\"
> >> -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share\" -DDMCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/dm\"
> >> -DGDMCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/gdm\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\"
> >> -DLIBEXECDIR=\"/usr/local/libexec\" -DLOGDIR=\"/var/log/gdm\"
> >> -DSBINDIR=\"/usr/local/sbin\"
> >> -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/local/share/locale"\"
> >> -DGDM_XAUTH_DIR=\"/var/run/gdm\"
> >> -DGDM_SESSION_DEFAULT_PATH=\"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin\"
> >> -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0
> >> -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
> >> -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/hal
> >> -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> >> -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DLANG_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/sysconfig/i18n\"
> >> -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_SA_LEN -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -MT
> >> gdm-slave-proxy.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/gdm-slave-proxy.Tpo -c -o
> >> gdm-slave-proxy.o gdm-slave-proxy.c
> >> mv -f .deps/gdm-slave-proxy.Tpo .deps/gdm-slave-proxy.Po
> >> cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I. -I.. -I../common
> >> -DAUTHDIR=\"/var/gdm\" -DBINDIR=\"/usr/local/bin\"
> >> -DDATADIR=\"/usr/local/share\" -DDMCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/dm\"
> >> -DGDMCONFDIR=\"/usr/local/etc/gdm\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib\"
> >> -DLIBEXECDIR=\"/usr/local/libexec\" -DLOGDIR=\"/var/log/gdm\"
> >> -DSBINDIR=\"/usr/local/sbin\"
> >> -DGNOMELOCALEDIR=\""/usr/local/share/locale"\"
> >> -DGDM_XAUTH_DIR=\"/var/run/gdm\"
> >> -DGDM_SESSION_DEFAULT_PATH=\"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin\"
> >> -DDBUS_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0
> >> -I/usr/local/include/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0
> >> -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include/hal
> >> -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> >> -DG_ENABLE_DEBUG -DLANG_CONFIG_FILE=\"/usr/local/etc/sysconfig/i18n\"
> >> -I/usr/local/include -DHAS_SA_LEN -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -MT
> >> gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.o -MD -MP -MF
> >> .deps/gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.Tpo -c -o gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.o
> >> gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.c
> >> gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.c: In function 'decode_packet':
> >> gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.c:2839: error: cannot convert to a pointer type
> >> gmake[3]: *** [gdm-xdmcp-display-factory.o] Error 1
> >> gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/gdm/work/gdm-2.26.1/daemon'
> >> gmake[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> >> gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/gdm/work/gdm-2.26.1/daemon'
> >> gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> >> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/gdm/work/gdm-2.26.1'
> >> gmake: *** [all] Error 2
> >> *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gdm.
> >> *** Error code 1
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/x11/gdm.
> >> -------------------------------
> >>
> >> What should I try now?
> >>
> >> ~ Nathan
> >
> > I switched over to working on xdm and finally got it to work! The
> > root of the problem seems to be that xdm was binding to udp6 (as in
> > udp on ipv6) ONLY, and I'm using a regular ipv4 network. The solution
> > in xdm's case was to add "LISTEN 0.0.0.0" to the top of
> > "/usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xaccess". I suspect that my problem with gdm
> > may be similar, but I haven't verified that. I'm reinstalling the
> > system right now, so I'll check and see if gdm is only binding to udp6
> > when it's back up. If that did happen to be gdm's problem, how could
> > I instruct it to listen on regular udp as well? There doesn't seem to
> > be an Xaccess file in /usr/local/etc/gdm.
> >
> > ~ Nathan
> >
>
> Okay, fresh install, gdm running (from CD, not ports -- and no custom patches).
>
> According to sockstat, it appears that gdm is doing the same thing
> that xdm was -- only binding to udp6 and not regular udp:
>
> root gdm-binary 999 8 udp6 *:177 *:*
>
> compare that to the entry for syslog, for example:
>
> root syslogd 536 6 udp6 *:514 *:*
> root syslogd 536 7 udp4 *:514 *:*
>
> Is there a config setting for gdm that I can set to make it listen on
> regular udp as well?
No. GDM is currently broken with it comes to XDMCP. I have not been
able to create a working patch set.
Joe
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