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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!demon!betanews.demon.net!minnow.render.com!news From: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: xdm and NFS (a curious question) Date: 26 Sep 1994 18:17:53 GMT Organization: RenderMorphics Ltd. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <DFR.94Sep26191753@trout.render.com> References: <35cmdd$mp8@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.render.com In-reply-to: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com's message of 16 Sep 1994 17:59:09 GMT In article <35cmdd$mp8@sundog.tiac.net> mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) writes: > Heres a problem that has been bugging me all day. I have two FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 > machines. One with a 380MB SCSI drive, and one with a 116MB IDE drive (this > is not the problem... yet). > > On the machine with the 380MB drive, I have installed XFree 2.1, and all the > other stuff, and it works great. In order to conserve disk space, I've > NFS mounted /usr/X386 to the machine with 116 MB of disk space. When I run > xdm, however, it tries to initialize the screen several times, then drops > me back to a shell prompt. Upon doing a ps -ax, I can see xdm still (trying to) > run. You may find that xdm is failing to lock its pidFile (specified in /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config) since FreeBSD doesn't support file locking over NFS. You could try changing xdm-config to use a pidFile in /var/run (which is local and also the "right" place for it). You could also try setting the lockPidFile resource to False. > [...] > > Thankx, > Brian > You're welcome. -- Doug Rabson, RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 71 251 4411 FAX: +44 71 251 0939