gmd3 fails to open X sessions on the console and on X servers using xdmcp (stretch 9.1)

2017-08-25 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, A few months ago I met no difficulties to configure our debian Wheezy server to manage X sessions with gdm3, on the console and on a set of X servers (Windows PC with Cygwin/X) using xdmcp. I was unable to retrieve this functionality after a dist-upgrade to Jessie (cf. https://lists.debi

Re: With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed (without the attached file)

2016-10-14 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, At the end of my email (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/10/msg00437.html) I wrote : "It would be nice if someone could answer that it works on his system : Jessie, gdm3 with xdmcp enabled and Windows PC emulating a X11 server with xlaunch (through Cygwin or another free soft

With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed (without the attached file)

2016-10-12 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, I have sent yesterday the following message (slightly modified this morning) but committed the mistake to attach a too big file (I thought that a file of 27700 bytes was not too large - Sorry...). Maybe some of you have already received it, but I think that it is not the case for most

With Jessie 8.6, gdm3 and XDMCP, the GDM face browser is built but not displayed

2016-10-11 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, We used during 2 years Gnome and gdm3 on a server with Debian Wheezy to let users open sessions from their Windows PC via Cygwin and xlaunch (xdmcp). It worked well till the upgrade to Jessie 8.5, for these Windows PC, as for the system console. The upgrade to Jessie 8.6 didn't solve t

Re: Maximal volume size for the client with a NFS v3 mounting

2016-09-29 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
On 28/09/2016 20:59, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 08:06:53PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: On 09/28/2016 07:18 PM, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: On a Jessie 8.5 system I mount a partition on a NAS server with NFSv3 protocol using options "nfs rw,soft" in /etc/fstab.

Maximal volume size for the client with a NFS v3 mounting

2016-09-28 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hi, On a Jessie 8.5 system I mount a partition on a NAS server with NFSv3 protocol using options "nfs rw,soft" in /etc/fstab. The size of the volume on the NAS server side has been extended to 20 To, but for my Debian system, this extension appears to be limited to 16 To : - The df comman

Re: gdm3 doesn't work any more after the upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie 8.5

2016-09-12 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
4096 sept. 9 13:47 .local Best regards, Jean-Paul Bouchet On 10/09/2016 10:09, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: > [...] > Check that logind is properly installed and pam_systemd is getting used at login. > [...] Could you check if you have libpam-systemd package

gdm3 doesn't work any more after the upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie 8.5

2016-09-09 Thread Jean-Paul Bouchet
Hello, We used during 2 years Gnome and gdm3 on a server with Debian Wheezy to let users work from their Windows PC via Cygwin and xlaunch (xdmcp). It worked well till the upgrade to Jessie, for these Windows PC, as for the system console, a very simple terminal. The migration has been done