[Fedora-directory-users] Odd admin console problem

[Brian Moyles]

We're in the process of evaluating FDS, but have run into a small problem.
I'm forwarding X from the server back to my OS X box running Apple's X11.
When I run startconsole, I get a half-drawn login window.  I've tried a few
different jvms from different vendors, no luck.
http://mirrors.playboy.com/~bmoyles/fds-console.png
I'm sure I'm missing something simple here... Any thoughts?

Thanks for your time,
Brian Moyles
Sr. Systems Administrator
Playboy Enterprises, Inc.

[Brian Moyles]

Forgot to mention--this box is a Dell PE1850 running RHEL4 ES update 3.


>  From: Brian Moyles <bmoyles(a)playboy.com&gt;
>  Reply-To: "General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project."
>  <fedora-directory-users(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:13:57 -0500
>  To: <fedora-directory-users(a)redhat.com&gt;
>  Conversation: Odd admin console problem
>  Subject: [Fedora-directory-users] Odd admin console problem
>  
>  We're in the process of evaluating FDS, but have run into a small problem.
>  I'm forwarding X from the server back to my OS X box running Apple's X11.
>  When I run startconsole, I get a half-drawn login window.  I've tried a few
>  different jvms from different vendors, no luck.
>  http://mirrors.playboy.com/~bmoyles/fds-console.png
>  I'm sure I'm missing something simple here... Any thoughts?
>  
>  Thanks for your time,
>  Brian Moyles
>  Sr. Systems Administrator
>  Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
>  
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[Nathan Kinder]

Brian Moyles wrote:

> We're in the process of evaluating FDS, but have run into a small
> problem.
> I'm forwarding X from the server back to my OS X box running Apple's X11.
> When I run startconsole, I get a half-drawn login window.  I've tried a few
> different jvms from different vendors, no luck.
>   
>  
Which JVM's have you tried?  I would recommend the 1.4 IBM or Sun JVM.  
1.5 should work as well.  I would also make sure that you are really 
using the Java you think you are.  In FDS 1.0.2, startconsole doesn't 
use your $JAVA_HOME setting.  It simply uses the first java binary in 
finds in $PATH.

> http://mirrors.playboy.com/~bmoyles/fds-console.png
> I'm sure I'm missing something simple here... Any thoughts?
>   
>  
I've been able to redirect to my OS X box before, but that was with an 
earlier Directory Server version.  I don't have my OS X laptop with me 
right now, but I'll give this a try with FDS 1.0.2 later and let you 
know if it works.

-NGK

> Thanks for your time,
> Brian Moyles
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
>
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> Fedora-directory-users(a)redhat.com
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>   
>

[Brian Moyles]

>  Which JVM's have you tried?  I would recommend the 1.4 IBM or Sun
> JVM.
>  1.5 should work as well.  I would also make sure that you are really
>  using the Java you think you are.  In FDS 1.0.2, startconsole doesn't
>  use your $JAVA_HOME setting.  It simply uses the first java binary in
>  finds in $PATH. 
Thanks for the reply.  I've tried 1.4.2 and 1.5 from Sun as well as 1.5 from
IBM.  Same deal.  Right now, I don't even have JAVA_HOME configured--I've
got java in the path right, though, and set up with alternatives so it's
technically the only one that should be found.

>  I've been able to redirect to my OS X box before, but that was
> with an
>  earlier Directory Server version.  I don't have my OS X laptop with me
>  right now, but I'll give this a try with FDS 1.0.2 later and let you
>  know if it works. 
Thanks for that.  I'm sure it's something weird I'm missing.

[Brian Moyles]

> > I've been able to redirect to my OS X box before, but that
> was with an
> > earlier Directory Server version.  I don't have my OS X laptop with me
> > right now, but I'll give this a try with FDS 1.0.2 later and let you
> > know if it works.
>  
>  Thanks for that.  I'm sure it's something weird I'm missing. 
Tried this to my iMac G5 at home today--same deal.  The login window fails
to complete drawing.  I'm going to try forwarding to Cygwin on a Windows box
in a minute.