From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 19 02:42:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA00119 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 02:42:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA00102 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 02:42:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nadav@barcode.co.il) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA14010; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:40:53 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma014006; Sun Oct 19 11:40:24 1997 Message-ID: <3449D551.730B@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:39:29 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher S Johnson CC: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: xdm References: <01BCDC0E.DF283BA0@K6_233> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christopher S Johnson wrote: > > I am having problems running XF86 3.3.1 on my system. At boot time I > run xdm and get the login. Once I login, the screen blanks for a > second and returns to the login screen. I cannot get it to load the > display manager. Does anyone have any suggestions to resolve this? First, please cut you lines at around column 80. As for your question, your .xsession file probably has some error in it. Look in the file .xsession-errors in your login directory. Also, make sure that .xsession is readable and executeable. Nadav