GDM refuses to restart after activating XDMCP

[Mats]

GDM refuses to restart after activating XDMCP with gdmsetup (and doing a /etc/init.d/gdm restart within X...) . The X server starts as normal, but I end up on a black screen with only the (gnome) mouse pointer available.
If I do a "startx" at console level, Gnome starts as normal.

Even if a do a complete reboot of the computer, the same problem occurs (with the X server starting ending up with that black screen with only mouse pointer available).

(I also manually changed "Enable=false" to "Enable=true" in the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf, but nothing happens if I change it back to "false")

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? Do you have anything to /var/log/syslog after running into the bug?

[Mats (mp-eriksson)]

Yes there is, unfortunately in swedish. Think it means something like "Access registry not found".

Jul 16 14:12:38 maer4-desktop gdmgreeter[5406]: Tillgänglighetsregistret hittades inte.
Jul 16 14:12:38 maer4-desktop avahi-daemon[4849]: Registering new address record for fe80::209:6bff:fe0c:8d7c on eth0.*.
Jul 16 14:12:42 maer4-desktop gdmgreeter[5450]: Tillgänglighetsregistret hittades inte.

[Mats (mp-eriksson)]

I use Ubuntu 7.04 i386 btw

[jnioche (jnioche)]

I just had exactly the same problem after enabling remote access. It worked again once I moved the file /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom out of the way.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

Hi there
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with the development version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron?

Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!.