Indirect XDMCP doesn't work

[Jonas Norlander]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alvin <info at alvin.be> wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 14:15:54 Alvin wrote:
>> I'm having troubles with XDMCP
>>
>> '$ X -query hostname' works. No troubles there.
>>
>> '$ X -indirect hostname' shows a chooser, but when I choose the server
>> (same hostname), I get to see a default grey background with an 'X' mouse
>> pointer. After a while, I just get thrown back to the chooser.
>>
>> Anyone an idea as to what causes this, because I want to see a chooser.
>> There are multiple X clients on the network. The others are Solaris based
>> and work fine.
>
> I found it. This is actually a bug:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86021
> Changing the 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts on the XDMCP server made it work.
>

I don't get that. Why do they add that line? Is only so you can ping
your hostname? I don't think there are any services listening on
127.0.1.1.