From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 10:41:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25850 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:41:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.160.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA25844 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 10:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA22000; Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:41:27 +0100 From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199703241841.TAA22000@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Can't login as root using xdm (2.2) In-Reply-To: <199703240436.VAA00647@obie.softweyr.ml.org> from Wes Peters at "23. Mar. 97 21:33:49" To: softweyr@xmission.com (Wes Peters) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 19:41:27 +0100 (MET) Cc: stanb@netcom.com, questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Stan Brown writes: > > I have installed 2.2 on a Toshiba Tecra 500CDT. For some reason I can't > > login as root at the xdm prompt. An ordinary user works fine. root can > > login from a svag login prompt. > > > > What might I have wrong here? > > Hard to tell, but the file .xsession-errors in root's home directory > should enlighten you. Login as root (and fail), then switch to a text > console, login, and examine the errors found there. Correct them and > (attempt) login at the XDM screen. Check your ~root/.xsession file. Probably, root got a new one on the installation. I think fvwm is the default window manager there, which itself is not installed by default. Hope it helps, Robert > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC -- Dr. Robert Eckardt ( Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Inst.f.Theor.Physik, NB6/169 ) Universitaetsstrasse 150, D-44780 Bochum, Germany ----X---8---- Telefon: +49 234 700-3709, Telefax: +49 234 7094-574 8 E-Mail: RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de --------8---- URL: http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte >>> To be successful one needs friends, <<< >>> To be very successful one needs enemies. <<< Privat: Steinbrink 22, D-45355 Essen, Germany -====- Telefon: +49 201 678602