X Terminals/X Terminal Server

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:21, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have a lab with a number of X terminals slaved to an X terminal
> server.  I got some new boxes, set them up at home (where they work),
> took them to the lab, and they don't work.  Specifically, the X screen
> starts up, tries to query the terminal server, but when it does, it
> recycles.  So it looks like it wants to work, but doesn't.
>
> I'm running: X -ac -query 192.168.1.1
> In my house, this works fine and gives me a login screen.
>
> At the lab, the old X-terminals work fine, but the new ones get the
> usual salt-and-pepper background with mouse cursor, but upon querying
> the server, the X server recycles.

Well, that only took me most of the day.

Running the X line from a different host allowed me to watch the
screen as a new error message not previously seen reared its ugly
head: config/hal: couldn't initialise [sic] context (null) ((null)).

So hal was the culprit (or rather lack of hal).  After installing hal,
I found the problem persisted, but also noted hal had not started.
Once hal was running, all was well.  Now why did I need hal at the lab
and not at my house.  Oh well, one mystery at a time.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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