Indeed, Xorg and some Xorg libs are required, these are available. Gnome is not needed to start xdm.
I have installed a testmachine, once again with the bare minimum to get it started, and installed through vnc. Obviously since there is hardly anything installed you can't do much on the graphical console but at least I have a console. I have compared the packages and installed all missing packages except yast-qt and yast-qt-pkg. For a very simple reason: it will install the full blown gnome environment as prereq. Even though this is not installed in the testmachine. Still, no luck in starting xdm. Regards, Berry. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Davis, Larry (National VM Capability) Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:20 PM To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Activate XDM and VNC I believe you need X Windows at a minimum installed and Gnome for a desktop Larry Davis, VM Capability -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of van Sleeuwen, Berry Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 6:46 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Activate XDM and VNC Hi All, We generally install our guests with only the most required packages. Since we never run X we obviously don't install that. We have installed our guests with an ssh based install so no VNC or otherwise graphical interface is used either. Our customer now want's a graphical interface in order to configure the machine. This is a SLES11 SP2 guest. I would like to activate VNC on the guest. I have VNC active but in order to get a graphical login I need to activate XDM. When I start /etc/init.d/xdm it responds "unused" and doesn't get started. In the /var/log/messages I can find: "/etc/init.d/xdm: No changes for /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers" and the same line for xdm-config. I expect it is missing some packages or some configuration but I can't figure out what it needs. Most documentation expect to have a full graphical installation in the first place so they expect all requirements on that part, both packages and configuration, are already available. In the past I have installed a guest through VNC. When installed this way the configuration will be suitable for a VNC connection. But this guest is a SLES10 machine. I try to compare SLES10 against SLES11 but there are some differences between them anyway so it hard to see what needs to be done this way. I have installed tightvnc and fvwm. Any requirements for this have been resolved by Yast during install of these packages. How can I get XDM to start? Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Berry van Sleeuwen Flight Forum 3000 5657 EW Eindhoven * +31 (0)6 22564276 [cid:image001.jpg@01CE3508.E10AE080] [cid:image002.jpg@01CE3508.E10AE080] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
