From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 14 15:25: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADBB237B404 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 15:25:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from BAPhD.gihon.org.au (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09191 for ; Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:55:00 +1030 (CST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: "questions" Subject: No X for user - RTFM Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 09:53:36 +1030 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have run into the familiar "XF86OpenConsole ...." error when trying to enter X as a user. So RTFM - in particular the FAQ. In /etc/ttys, I found: ttyv8. "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon". xterm. off secure and changed off to on. This had the effect of putting me into an endless loop - X login prompt; username; password; fail to start X; X login prompt; and so on. If I deliberately used ficticious name/password, the login said "login incorrect" so this loop was not due to a failure to recognise root or me as authorised users. So ... I had something of a job finding rc.local, buried beneath several sub-directories as it is, but did find the two entries: xdm_start=NO #xdm_start=YES and reversed the comment hash. This brought me back to the "XF86OpenConsole ... " error again . So I can use X as root but not as user. :-( PLEASE help! This issue is preventing me from making the transfer from Linux to FreeBSD - I refuse to operate as root all the time! -- Regards, Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message