Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:59:43 +0100 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@mobil.cz> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No X for user - RTFM Message-ID: <20020115075943.G393@roman.mobil.cz> In-Reply-To: <02011516412801.01288@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> References: <02011509533600.01039@BAPhD.gihon.org.au> <20020114153557.570daab5.steve@velosystems.net> <02011516412801.01288@BAPhD.gihon.org.au>
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> From: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au>
> To: Steve Wingate <steve@velosystems.net>
> Subject: Re: No X for user - RTFM
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:41:28 +1030
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>
> > > In /etc/ttys, I found:
> > > ttyv8. "usr/X11R6/bin/xdm - nodaemon". xterm. off secure
> > > and changed off to on.
> >
> > Those periods in that xdm line don't belong so I don't know where you
> > got those from.
>
> >From the file itself - I was most particular about being exact.
> Maybe all I have to is remove those periods? Other lines have them in
> similar places, though.
If your /etc/ttys contains dots in tty lines like the one above,
then there's something hosed. I would say fucked up. Could you tell
me what revision of the file you have? Mine says:
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/etc.i386/ttys,v 1.8 2000/01/29 12:18:03 obrien Exp $
# @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
and this is a 4.4-STABLE box. Looks like your /etc/ttys got
corrupted. BTW, I've experienced strange characters in cvsupped
sources on one of my computers. Turned out to be off-by-one errors,
caused by a broken NIC.
> > Otherwise, you can always install xwrapper so users
> > can start X11 from a command prompt. Should be in ports.
>
> I have Xwrapper in my system. When I type "Xwrapper" I get details
> about usage, none of which seem to relate to starting an X session.
Xwrapper allows you to start X through the startx(1) script.
BTW, I can't find it in my /usr/ports (cvsupped yesterday), nor in
the ports search on freebsd.org... I guess I'm in for a surprise
with 4.5...
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