I've experienced the same problem. however after this posting I found
a update on the Redhat ftp server
(ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.0/i386/) which fixes the
problem.
I just did rpm -ga|grep XF and got a output that looks something like
this :
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-49
XFree86-Mach64-3.3.3.1-49
XFree86-xfs-3.3.3.1-49
XFree86-libs-3.3.3.1-49
XFree86-3.3.3.1-49
I then downloaded the corresponding RPM's from the site.
Then I did a rpm -U *.rpm in the download directory.
After this upgrade everything works quite fine.
A rpm -ga|grep XF should now give this output:
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-52
XFree86-Mach64-3.3.3.1-52
XFree86-xfs-3.3.3.1-52
XFree86-libs-3.3.3.1-52
XFree86-3.3.3.1-52
Anyway, this solved the problem for me ...... hope it does the same
for you.
Morten
>This is a major problem with RH6. I needed to set up a server at work where
>having a real xdm and font server was essential (it was intended to serve
>X terminals), and I ended up installing 5.2 instead. XDMCP and font service
>work great on all previous RH releases. Only 6.0 is broken. RH has a white
>paper on their web site claiming they did it for security reasons. If there's
>a security hole, they should patch it, not shut the service down. If RH
>doesn't fix this in their next release, I'm going to standardize on another
>distribution at work. If Debian had a decent scriptable installer, I'd
>switch in a heartbeat. If RH got one thing right, it was Kickstart.
>If you're determined to get it to work, my only suggestion is to recompile
>XFree from source. Not RH's source RPMs but the original distribution source.
>There's nothing in RH that prevents this stuff from working, RH just crippled
>it in their release of the X binaries. I found it much easier to upgrade the
>kernel and a few other things in 5.2 than to try to fix the brain-damage in
>6.0.
>Hey, Redhat, some of us run X over networks.... Ever heard of them?
>>I was wondering if anyone has set up Redhat 6.0 as a true XDMCP server.
>>I tried to log into the box using an NCD xterm which logs into Sun
>>Solaris and HP-UX terminals without problem, as long as the Sun or HP
>>box is broadcasting itself as an XDMCP server.
>>The linux box does broadcast itself as XDMCP until you click on it and
>>try to log in. At that point, it drops off the list of available
>>servers, although you can rlogin, telnet, or ftp to it without problem.
>>I've tried this using KDE, XFCE, or Gnome, none of which work, but the
>>Xserver works at the actual computer.
>>Anyone have a solution or ideas why this is happening? All assistance
>>is most welcome!
>>Thanks
>>Jeff
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