Re: gdm error message

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:04:44AM +1000, Melinda Taylor wrote:
> 
> I have recently enabled XDMCP on my new linux server so that users in my
> local network can connect to the server using their xterms.
> 
> However I keep seeing the following message in /var/log/messages:
> 
> gdm[1241]: gdm_xdmcp_decode_packet: Unknown opcode from host XXX.XX.XXX.XX
> 
> All the IP's are valid IP's for xterms in the dept. but I am not sure
> exactly what the error message is telling me? ANyone have any ideas?

Hmmm, this means that they're sending an opcode that gdm doesn't know.  GDM
should support all the opcodes in the XDMCP spec, perhaps this is some vendor
extension.  Or perhaps they're sending something out of sequence.  Can you turn
on debugging and see what else gets written to syslog?

George