Re: X connection issues with Solaris CDE 1.6

[Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>]

On 01/04/2011 00:25, Gary R Buell wrote:
> This apparently is a 1.5+ issue that still persists:

Does this mean that the issue has been present since X server 1.5.0?
Or do you mean since Cygwin 1.5?

> I start an X session to connect to a Sun server and it takes 10-15 minutes 
> to get the login prompt.

This is pretty likely to be waiting for something on the host you are trying
to login to.  Google's favourite answer is that host is spending that time
trying to rDNS the address you are connecting from.

The X server doesn't seem to be able to connect to the fontserver you are
pointing it at, so you should be able to drop the -fp option, although I don't
think that can be the cause of the delay.

> I can login OK and can then work within an 
> existing xterm session. However, if I try to do anything on the CDE 
> desktop, the X session freezes.
> 
> I have attached the log file.

> Release: 1.8.2.0 (10802000)
> Build Date: 2010-08-06

This X server release was superceded by 1.9.0-2 on 2010-10-23.  The current X
server release is 1.10.0-1.

Your CDE freezing problem sounds a lot like upstream bugs [1] and [2], which I
believe are resolved since 1.9.0, so you might like to try upgrading your X
server.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25400
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27295

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Jon TURNEY
Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer

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