Re: Serious GDNC problem

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 10:48 AM, Stefan Urbanek wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am still having really serious problems with GDNC when running on XDM
> session. When running on one machine, it is OK.
>
> I have a tool sending distributed notifications and application
> observing those notifications. Tool is sending those notifications to
> one gndcserver and application is listening from another, so application
> does not get any notifications.
>
> So I have done this:
>
> 1. killed gdomap and all gdnc servers (yes, there were more)
> 2. restarted gdomap
> 3. run the tool - this will launch gdnc and register it as 'GDNCServer'
>
>         > ps ax | grep gdnc
>          9285 ?        S      0:00
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/gdnc
>
> 4. run the application - this will lanch another gdnc server and
> register it as
>    'GNDCServer-some.host.name'
>
>         > ps ax | grep gdnc
>          9285 ?        S      0:00
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/gdnc
>          9374 ?        S      0:00
> /usr/GNUstep/System/Tools/ix86/linux-gnu/gnu-gnu-gnu/gdnc -NSHost
>         shine.dcs.elf.stuba.sk
>
> Here you may see, that I have two gdnc servers runnging. Tool is using
> first one and application is using the second one. So application cannot
> receive distributed notifications from the tool.
>
> Also when I restart the application, I have same problem as before:
> application is waiting for something (gdnc?), but without any output
> telling what is the app doing.
>
> I have presentation on tuesday, and this is very important for me to
> work.
>
> Any help is welcome. Thank you,

Distributed notifications are supposed to be shared between different
applications on the same workstation, not between applications on
different workstations.

So if your application is displaying to another workstation, your tool 
needs
to be started up to use that workstation too (assuming you want them to
chare a notification center).

So in this case it looks like you need to start your tool with
-NSHost shine.dcs.elf.stuba.sk