I'm using Ubuntu 11.10, lightdm. It appears my XDMCP service is setup correctly, but it won't connect.
I have the following in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
:
[XDMCPServer]
enabled=true
To restart lightdm the following command is issued:
sudo restart lightdm
This produces the following log file in /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
:
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Launching X Server
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Launching process 6947: /usr/bin/X :0 -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.01s] DEBUG: Starting XDMCP server on UDP/IP port 177
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.02s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+0.17s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 6947
No errors.
So far so good.. looks like the XDMCP service is started.
However, even though it looks like it's started without any error, it fails to connect. The problem may be related to nothing listening on TCP port 6000?
netstat -l reveals the following:
udp 0 0 *:xdmcp *:*
udp 0 0 *:34000 *:*
udp 0 0 *:mdns *:*
udp6 0 0 [::]:xdmcp [::]:*
which shows the xdmcp 177 port listening, but nothing in netstat shows tcp port 6000 listening:
netstat -l | grep 6000
returns nothing.
Isn't XDMCP supposed to be listening on port 6000?
A client trying to connect just times out.
The funny part is it was working before, and we can't think of any configuration change which would have effected XDMCP. Trouble shooting seems to point to the 6000 port not listening, but we never validated this port was being used earlier when it was working.