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denis filipetti (denis@world.std.com) wrote:
: Folks,

: 	Some people from my company are at a customers site and are
: having much trouble with xdm. Seems all is fine when using any one
: x-terminal. One can login/logout many times with no problem. But it
: seems that once another x-terminal is brought up, within about 10-20
: login cycles xdm will hang for BOTH of the x-terminals !!!
: Specifically it seems like xstart is not being run. Scologin seems OK
: in that it can still detect when an illegal account name/password is
: detected, but once a legal login is done all is quiet. Messages to
: disk in startx never get out, seemingly implicating the
: scologin/startx interface. Also, hitting F1 on a correct login hangs
: as well. The xdmerrors/xerrors file is empty and with open protection.
: This is a real head scratcher, it would be great if anybody has heard
: of problems like this.

: The environment:

: OS: sco/odt 3.0
: X-terminal: NCD MCX (not the windows based s/w product)

: Many thanks for any help,

We have the same problem with Xterminals from Sun (X Term classic) 
with xdm X11R6 on an Sparc 20 running with sunos 4.1.3U_1, if i then look
at the networkmonitor i see very much traffic between the xterminal and
the server. (20% Networktraffic with not very much datatransfer(small pakets)).

But on our old Sun 3/80 running suos 4.1.1 which start at the end of the
rc.local an X11R5 (MIT) Server with 
"X -fp ... -query server"
we have no problems like the sun terminal. I often use some RS6000 (with 8MB ram)
as X terminal to our sun cluster. (X11R5 from IBM) and have only sometimes
problems with hanging xdm, if i kill the X server on the RS6000 in a session.
(startup >exec X -query server). So only our X Terminal from Sun makes problems
with the xdm X11R6.

-Oliver (email scher@informatik.uni-freiburg.de )